Hands outside: The demonstrators offer a comprehensive message to Trump and Musk at the capital gathering

On Saturday, Washington’s memorial was surrounded by thousands of brands with countless messages. “Support of Ukraine”, “Beware of Dog”, “Protecting a Transient Life”, was just a few of them. Others hit a note from discontent: “Where do I start …”

It turns out that the protests throughout the country this week turned into millions of demonstrators across 1300 different event, and the organizers, motivated by a wide range of reasons, but two people: President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk. In the signs they brought to the capital’s march, some demonstrators focused on one case. Others tried to suit the largest possible number. The high line was a message to the United States government: protecting democracy, and stopping tampering with important programs and agencies.

The crowd in Washington, DC, was more than 100,000, for all organizations – peaceful and organized. On the stage behind the Washington monument, legislators such as actors Jimmy Raskin (D-MD) and Maxwell Frost (D-FL) and their organizers, including the AFL-CIO Liz Schuller president. The attendees around them listened quietly, except for the slogan of communication and the accidental response, chants, or Boos for the Trump administration. Beyond that, a group of demonstrators walked around the memorial and they are “their hands! Emptying Trump!”

It seems that many messages and movements in Washington are easily coexist, with an accidental exception. While she stood in the corner of a street outside the National Commercial Center, he urged a handful of demonstrators to join them for a respectable gathering in the Capitol at 1:00 p.m., an hour after the start of the main event programming. A man bearing a federal mark overlap for federal workers, and told one of the pro -events demonstrators that while he was supporting his message, he was worried about the transformation of people from the central protest. “Do not leave the main gathering,” and urge passers -by. The protester, supporting the two courts, modified her message. “Join Palestine Rally at any time that carries your soul,” and “Go to both gatherings, but do not forget Palestine.”

In front of Washington’s monument, a woman named Susan was covered with blue pasta Bulatri Bolka Bluelaro with signs of fluttering in the wind: “Dog is a fraud,” one of them said, “standing with Ukraine,” another. The third of a long list of things that the government must keep “its hands”: law firms, universities and many federal agencies. She told me: “There are a lot of things that Trump – Musk and (Vice President JD) Vice -Vice -Vice – which is the heavy.” “Every day, there are four or five things. Whether he kidnaps people outside the street, which leads to cutting agencies that really perform vital functions – things that may logically for someone who has a heavy hammer instead of a scalpel.” Susan, who declined to give her last name, says she chose billiards to confirm the calm of the event. “This is a violent movement, and unlike the sixth of January who brought the poles of science and other things to use it as weapons, everyone here is here to protest safely.”

Some organizers Buses arranged To help people travel to the capital of the country for the gathering, although many people came closer to the country in the events spread throughout the country (and thanks to the protests in many major European cities, the world.) New York City And according to what was reported A similar turnout on the capital-a much smaller city-and the protests that have appeared in a stereotypical red states such as Idahu and West Virginia. But for many who attended the capital’s march, the event was profound. “Russell Feon said they wanted to put us in shock, and they are beneficial to this promise every day,” says one of the characters who knew herself as a federal worker and refused to give her name, referring to the project author 2025 who leads the administration and budget office. “It has been only a nightmare since January 20 to 3 million federal employees.”

Leonard Billy, a retired worker from the Ministry of Justice, has drafted a huge figure of a man in the government efficiency department (DOGE) from the chicken wire and expandable foam. In an interview while carrying his statue from behind, Billy said he “hurts” really to see how colleagues who spent 33 years working with them were treated by Musk Dog. “My experience with colleagues with whom I worked during that time was those people who worked well at night, during the weekend, through family vacations to maintain the secure of the American public.” His planned retirement began in advance in January, and while he says, “People continue to tell me what a great time is, I go back to the state of the guilt of the survivors.”

The person who knew himself as a federal worker in the crowd stood near the theater that distributes small American flags, and displays the signs of people. “The white outstanding people were walking with our knowledge for a very long time,” she said. “I just think it is time to restore it. They offended it. They turned it into something that was not supposed to be intended, and it is supposed to be freedom for everyone, and not for a few selected.” (Some people seemed to be reluctant to take knowledge, and to reconsider only when I told them, “We will return it from the far right.”) Despite recent reports that Elon Musk may be on his way out of the White House, the worker is pessimistic that Dog’s effect on the federal workforce will end.

Being among the other federal workers brought some condolences to the lawyer for enforcement enforcement of financial consumer protection (CFPB) Dog Wilson, a member of the Agency Federation. CFPB had two rocky months, with the acting director The employees order to stop workuntil The judge recently ordered them to return While a wider condition is suspended.

Months now, Federal workers have been organizing protests in front of federal buildings, Pay again on chaos Trump has been subjected to the federal workforce. Many early protests were small, as they turned something from the rank of 50 participants. Hands work from protest in the capital – and the day of work in general – on a completely different scale. But for some of those present, he served a similar purpose: allowing them to come to defend the work they have done for years or decades. “It is good to be together and try this solidarity,” Wilson said on Saturday. “I want to hear the country that we are making our functions to protect them … I want the American people to know that we only want to work.”