The anti-Musk protest movement is expected to ramp up with Congress on recess

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New York (AP) – Donald Trump is the president, but billionaire Elon Musk is the focus of thousands of Democratic activists who launched a protest campaign this week to fight the Trump administration campaign to health, education and humanitarian agencies.

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Hundreds of protests are scheduled outside the offices of Congress and Tesla merchants, with organizers who hope to send a pointed message to the members of Congress who are on this week.

The reverse reaction remains neither approaching the severity of the protests during and after Trump's first installation eight years ago. But a loose alliance for Democrats and progressive wandering around Musk as the best Lieutenant Trump and his purification of the federal bureaucracy.

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“It is a great link to the Maga Alliance,” said Ezra Levin, co -founder of the non -operating progressive group, from Musk. ))

It cannot be recruited, which claims that more than 1,300 local classes worldwide encourages members to protest the offices of members of Congress, regardless of the political party. The group also provided a step -by -step guide to protesting agents at Tesla, Musk's Electric Company.

The memorandum encourages demonstrators to stay on sidewalks and public spaces and avoid any measures that may interfere directly with commercial operations, such as preventing entrances or assaulting private property. It also calls for the Tesla demonstrators to remain on the message: “This is related to the political seizure of musk, not Tesla, Spacex or X as companies.”

Senator Fairmont Bernie Sanders calls what he calls a “national tour to fight a few” with a stop in the working class areas of Iowa and Nebraska this week.

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Ken Martin, head of the National Democratic Committee, will strike for the first time as the party leader as well. The newly -elected DNC spokeswoman said that the newly elected DNC chair will travel to Pennsylvania, Texas, Illinois and Missouri in the coming days to meet local Democratic officials and work leaders.

Like the demonstrators, Martin is expected to seize the role of musk. During a meeting with Pittsburg employment leaders, for example, he plans to highlight the last Musk focus on the Ministry of Labor, which can put “data safety like unemployment and inflation rate in danger, which is important for the United States stable and Muldafin said:” The economy And extension, “.

Many Democrats in the House of Representatives realize that they are more active to resent the base of their party.

The Political and Democratic Communications Committee in the House of Representatives issued a memorandum before the holiday that declares the Democrats to adopt “nine days of vision” and said that it is necessary for members to host one municipal hall, personal or via phone, and at least one community happened highlighting the “devastating effects” For Trump's actions and musk.

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The wave of protests comes in a critical moment, as broken Democrats struggle to stop the Republican President's cleansing of the federal bureaucracy, which displays thousands of workers within departments that focus on public health, education, and old warriors and humanitarian services, among other things.

In recent days, extinguishing in the Ministry of Veterans Affairs includes researchers working in treating cancer, addiction to opioids, artificial limbs and burning, according to American Senator Patti Murray, a democratic of Washington State. The discounts also include more than 5,000 employees of the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services and about the ten workforce in the centers of diseases control and prevention.

In some cases, the Musk team – with Trump's blessing but without the approval of Congress – is trying to close the entire agencies, including the American Agency for International Development, the Ministry of Education and the US Consumer Protection Office.

Trump has defended the discounts as necessary to eliminate waste and fraud. He praised Musk's work with the Ministry of Government Agency, or Doug, saying that he found “horrific” evidence of waste spending. It signed an executive matter that expands the effect of musk.

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Meanwhile, Musk defended the rapid and medium discounts he paid through the federal government while recognizing the existence of errors.

Democrats in Congress condemn movements as dangerous, but without controlling any of the Congress room, there is little that they can do to stop the Trump administration along with resorting to the courts. However, three of the country's largest progressive groups – are indivisible, the Moveon party and the working families party – are coordinating protests this week to send a clear message to the elected officials of both the two main political parties who must do more.

However, Congress Democrats may face the anger of voters.

Moveon, which includes membership of approximately 10 million, hosts dozens of marches outside the city halls and the offices of Congress for these members who do not host public events. The group will focus on “the republicans convincing in the House of Representatives whose voices will be very important to oppose Trump Mousse's agenda,” according to the inspection of the holiday week plan. But there will also be gatherings targeting the democratic leader of the House of Representatives, Hakim Jeffrez and the Democratic leader of the Senate Chuck Schumer, both of whom are from New York, among the other Democrats.

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“We see a real return in energy that opposes what Trump, Musk and the Republicans do to our country,” said Moveon Rahna Epting, CEO of Moveon Rahna Epting, adding that “people are crazy like hell.”

The Families Party focuses on protests in the regions of the weak Republicans in the states such as California, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Yistsen. The procedures will include people who were directly affected by the Trump administration discounts, including private education teachers, nurses and workers at the beginning, according to a spokesman for the working families Ravi Mangla.

“Many Republicans were not their feet on fire,” Mangla said.

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