Raleigh Protest focuses on the resistance against Trump, Musk, project 2025 :: Wral.com

A national movement that protested for the first actions of President Donald Trump made a stop at Raleight on Wednesday.

The organizers requested 50 states, 50 protests against the 2025 project.

Hundreds gathered around the State Capitol building in protest. The protesters marched around the block that surrounded the Capitol building, expressing disgust with Trump and X, Spacex and the leader of Tesla, Elon Musk.

Online and social networks, the movement has been organized under the hashtags #buildtheresistance and #5050. The protest was organized by online groups such as Reddit.

The crowd was expected to march to the legislative building at some point. At 1:45 pm, the police said no arrests had been made.

Throughout the United States, protesters gathered Wednesday to protest the first actions of the Trump administration, denouncing everything from President’s immigration repression to its reversal of transgender rights and a proposal for Force the Palestinians of Gaza’s strip to the Palestinians.

Trump has received criticism in the first weeks of his mandate for Impose tariffs on the goods of Mexico, Canada and China and the interruption of federal programs in an attempt to reduce spending.

A judge of the United States District Court issued a preliminary court order on Wednesday, Block President Donald Trump’s attempt to unilaterally eliminate US citizenship.

Musk and Trump have been linked in many cases during the past year, and Musk recently debuted the Government Efficiency Department (Doge). Musk, who spoke at Trump’s inauguration, said the group’s purpose is to “defeat the bureaucracy and restore democracy.”

Critics have said that the agenda shared Trump and Musk is “shaking the foundations of American democracy“” Democrats have attacked Trump’s policies, which led to protests. On Sunday, thousands of people marched against the Trump plan for large -scale deportations in southern California, even in the center of Los Angeles, where the protests closed an important highway for hours.

“Hysterical reactions like this is how you know that @doge is doing a job that really matters”, The musk tweeted on Tuesday.

Also on Wednesday, Hundreds of supporters of the USAID agency recovered in Washington, DCto protest the dismantling of the independent government agency.