Anti-Trump budget protests held in over 1500 towns
A recent budget bill, demanding austerity for the average person while providing tax breaks for the rich, has exacerbated financial stress, with 70% of Americans feeling more financially stressed than ever.
To honor the five-year anniversary of the death of civil rights leader John Lewis, protests were held in over 1500 towns and cities against the policies of President Donald Trump and in favor of the legacy of nonviolent resistance, which toppled the system of America's apartheid 60 years ago.
Trump is being accused of attempting a new rollback of civil rights, voting rights, the right to protest, the rights of immigrants, and more.
Why are they attacking our healthcare? Why are they attacking education?
I am just beside myself with anger.
The only way for our country to be returned to a democracy is for people to get out in the streets and make a lot of noise; good trouble, as John Lewis would say.
Protester 01
On top of the rights rollback is a recently passed budget bill that demands austerity for the average person to pay for tax breaks for the rich.
The bill comes as a recent survey found that 70% of Americans say they are the most financially stressed than they have ever been.
The amount of economic uncertainty for a lot of people is a really big thing that I am seeing a lot in my political organizing.
Like a lot of folks are just really super, super unsure of how things are going to end up for their families, right?
Protester 02
Many protesters were especially outraged over Trump's cuts to food assistance to the poor.
The percentage of Americans dealing with food insecurity has reached 16% of the country, a number which has doubled in just four years.
I wrote a book about it called "They Rule: The 1% versus Democracy".
We've had oligarchy as long as I've been alive.
In this country, we have a capitalist system where the wealth, the power, is distributed upward as we did under Obama, under Bush, and under Biden. Now it's more graphics with Trump, but Trump is more than an oligarch.
Trump is a Fascist and he brings in an explicit force of white supremacy. He brings in an explicit power of patriarchy, misogyny, and he really brings in an explicit power and force of nativism and xenophobic nationalism.
Paul Street, Refuse Fascism
Mainly spurred by his crackdown on illegal immigration and his failed war against Iran, Trump's disapproval rating is now 55%
Trump returned to office with a disapproval rating of 43% meaning there's been a 12-point increase in just six months.
Trump's decision to increase economic inequality amid a time of record economic uncertainty could cause his disapproval rating to increase even more, and soon.
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