Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators are hitting the streets across the country on Saturday in protest of President Trump and his administration.
The “Hands Off!” rallies are taking place in more than 1,000 cities across all 50 states, and nearly 400,000 people have signed up to attend the protests, according to the progressive organization Indivisible, which is one of the almost 200 groups partnering to organize the event.
Protesters are demanding an end to billionaire influence and “rampant corruption” in the administration, a stop to Social Security and Medicare cuts, and an end to attacks on trans people, immigrants and other marginalized communities.
Early Saturday morning, on Capitol Hill, the Senate voted to adopt a budget resolution that will kickstart the implementation of Trump’s domestic agenda. The measure passed with a 51-48 vote after the upper chamber worked through the night.
The deal, which still needs to pass the House, has drawn the ire of some House Republicans, with one lawmaker even calling the resolution “unserious and disappointing.”
This all comes as the economy reels from Trump’s sweeping tariffs on U.S. trading partners after brutal few days for the stock market.
Follow along for the latest updates.
Harris praises national protests against Trump
Former Vice President Kamala Harris praised the “Hands Off!” rallies occurring across the country on Saturday.
“Today in every state across our nation, Americans are standing up to the administration as they implement Project 2025 at full speed,” she wrote on the social platform X, referencing the Heritage Foundation’s political playbook.
“The voices of working people will always be louder than the unelected billionaires” she added, thanking demonstrators for speaking out against the Trump administration and its agenda.
Spotlight turns to Booker as Dems look to fill leadership void
Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-N.J.) record-breaking Senate speech this week is putting him squarely in the political spotlight as Democrats wonder whether he could be a presidential contender in 2028.
Booker’s 25-hour speech aimed at combating President Trump’s moves in the White House gave Democrats a boost, especially as the party did better than expected in two Florida House races and saw a liberal candidate easily win a Wisconsin Supreme Court contest.
Stansbury thanks protesters rallying against Trump
Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) thanked demonstrators across the U.S. for protesting against the Trump administration on Saturday.
“Across the country and back at home, people are coming out to rally and tell Donald Trump and Elon Musk to hand off our healthcare, our veterans, and our democracy,” she wrote on the social platform X.
“Thankful to everyone organizing, standing up, and speaking out,” she added.
Demonstrators rally in New York City
CNBC’s Liesman: Trump tariffs like steering Titanic ‘toward the iceberg’
CNBC’s senior economics reporter Steve Liesman said that President Trump’s new sweeping tariffs are equal to steering the Titanic “toward the iceberg.”
“And I guess another way to think about it is this. You know, the Titanic hit an iceberg by accident. This is the equivalent of steering the Titanic towards the iceberg,” Liesman said during his Friday night appearance on MSNBC’s “All In” show.
Green says he’ll push to impeach Trump
Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) promised to bring forth articles of impeachment against President Trump within the next 30 days on Saturday.
“You don’t deserve the office you hold,” he said at a Washington rally. “You can’t be entrusted with liberty and justice for all. You can’t be entrusted with the government of the people by the people for the people.”
“I’m coming for you,” the Texas Democrat added, donning a shirt reading “censured not silenced.”
Green made headlines earlier this year after he was censured for his protest during Trump’s joint address to Congress in March.
In February, Green signaled he would introduce impeachment efforts over the president’s comments about Gaza.
Swalwell to Trump: ‘Get your a– off the golf course and face the people’
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) took aim at President Trump for heading to Florida to golf after announcing aggressive tariffs that sent the stock market tumbling this week.
“And where is Donald Trump? He’s golfing,” Swalwell said at a Washington rally Saturday, mentioning concerns about a rise in consumer prices.
“So, to Donald Trump, I say, get your a– off the golf course and face the people,” he added.
The president left Washington for Florida on Thursday. On Saturday, he competed in a senior club championship at his golf club in Jupiter, Fla.
Beyer: Trump is ‘destroying our economy’
Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va) railed against President Trump, stating his recent tariffs are “destroying our economy.”
“Donald Trump says he wants to ‘Make America Great Again,’” he said to a crowd in Washington on Saturday. “But he’’s going to make America the 1930s again.”
“Herbet Hoover gave us the stock market crash of 1929,” Beyer added. “Donald Trump gave us the stock market crash of 2025.”
The Virginia Democrat went on to encourage listeners to take charge against the administration.
“We will be fearless, relentless, angry, smart, and we will be tireless,” he said.
Protesters gather on National Mall
Treasury secretary praises GOP Senate budget deal
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent commended the budget deal passed in Congress’s upper chamber overnight.
“The Senate just took a major step toward pro-growth tax certainty and economic strength,” he wrote on the social platform X Saturday afternoon, calling on the House “to finish the job.”
But this may be easier said than done as fiscal hawks and hardline conservative lawmakers in the House have balked at the measure, saying they cannot support the legislation due to it not having steep enough spending cuts.
Haberman on Trump tariffs, decision to skip soldier transfer: He’s ‘going to do what he wants’
National political correspondent Maggie Haberman said President Trump’s decision to skip the dignified transfer of four American soldiers who died last week and his sweeping tariff agenda show one thing: “He’s going to do what he wants.”
“I think long ago he stopped caring about certain optics. And he’s made very clear during this presidency, he’s going to do what he wants,” Haberman, a veteran New York Times reporter, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Friday evening. “And, you know, it’s not just playing golf.”
Top Democrat: Trump chose power over country
Democratic Whip Rep. Katherine Clark (Mass.) slammed President Trump in Washington on Saturday, calling out billionaire influence in the administration.
“This is about all of us versus the billionaire class and the politicians they have purchased,” she said, then directing her speech to the president.
“We see that you have chosen power over your country, over democracy,” Clark added. “We’re here to tell you we’re not going to stand for it.”
House GOP leaders urge support for Senate budget resolution as fiscal hawks balk
House Republican leaders are urging their members to adopt the Senate’s version of the budget resolution that will tee up President Trump’s ambitious legislative agenda, arguing that major differences between the chambers’ instructions on spending reductions do not prevent fiscal hawks from achieving their goals of historic cuts.
In a “Dear Colleague” letter sent to members on Saturday, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), and Conference Chair Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) are getting a head start on arguing in favor of the legislation as hardline conservative publicly balk at the Senate product.
Connecticut Democrat lauds rally turnout against ‘MAGA clown show’
Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) took to X on Saturday to tout turnout at a “Hands Off!” rally against the “unconstitutional #maga clown show” in Washington.
“Retirements: gone,” he wrote in the post alongside a photo of a crowd of demonstrators. “Kids college savings: gone. American soft power: gone. Competent government: gone. Free expression: gone. Free markets: gone”
Trans rights activist to Trump: ‘I exist’
Stella Keating, the first transgender teenager to testify before the Senate, railed against the Trump administration’s attack on trans people.
“While the economy is crumbling and families are struggling, this administration wants you to think that I am the threat,” she said to a crowd in Washington Saturday.
“Donald Trump and Elon Musk will tell you that I don’t exist,” she continued. “But I do. I exist.”
NSA names acting director after top officials ousted
The Trump administration named Lt. Gen. William J. Hartman as acting director of the National Security Agency (NSA) late Thursday, just hours after dismissing top officials, an agency spokesperson told The Hill.
Hartman will also serve as acting commander for the U.S. Cyber Command and acting chief for the Central Security Service. Sheila Thomas was designated as acting deputy director, according to the official.
Hundreds of protesters gather in Charlotte, N.C.
Senate Republican claps back at House GOP over budget concerns
Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) clapped back Saturday at Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas) and other members of the lower chamber that say the Senate budget doesn’t cut government spending enough.
“Tanking budget resolution will block our only serious effort to make [President] Trump tax cuts permanent and prevent largest tax hike on working class Americans in US history,” the Indiana Republican wrote on the social platform X.
Self, along with fellow Texas Reps. Chip Roy (R) and Jodey Arrington (R), expressed concerns, with the latter stating the Senate deal is “unserious and disappointing.”
Roy said he would not vote for the bill once it comes to the House floor.
Congress pushes back at White House over Signal group chat
The White House’s assertion that the case is closed surrounding national security officials’ use of Signal is getting pushback in Congress, even among some Republicans who say their own probes will press on.
On Monday, the White House said it had taken steps to ensure the inadvertent addition of a journalist to a group chat to discuss sensitive information about a pending airstrike in Yemen can “never happen again.”
Demonstrators protest outside Trump’s Florida golf club
Trump expected to host Netanyahu at White House next week
President Trump is expected to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a visit on Monday, a White House official told NewsNation.
The meeting will take place just days after the president announced a 17 percent tariff on imported goods from the Middle Eastern country. Netanyahu would be the first international leader to visit the White House after the president’s “Liberation Day” tariffs announcement against U.S. trading partners.
Frost rails against Musk: ‘Money can’t buy you happiness’
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) slammed Elon Musk on Saturday, warning of an “insidious rise of authoritarianism” across the country at a protest in Washington.
“This insidious rise of authoritarianism is fueled by corrupt billionaires and mega corporations who believe that they have the right to control every aspect of our lives,” he said
The first Gen Z member of Congress went on to trash Musk, specifically, calling out his spending in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election earlier this month.
“Elon doesn’t like me. If you told me five years ago that the richest man on Earth would be tweeting about me… I mean, it goes to show, Elon’s a great example that money can’t buy you happiness – and money can’t buy you a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat either.”
Labor secretary lauds jobs report, Trump tariffs
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer defended President Trump’s decision to slap new tariffs on global trading partners, suggesting in a new interview that the additional import taxes will protect American workers.
“I can tell you this, the president is focused on protecting the American worker through these tariffs. Fair trade practices are important to the American worker as well,” DeRemer told NewsNation’s “CUOMO” on Friday.
House Republican says he’ll vote no on Senate budget deal
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said he will not vote for the upper chamber’s “failure” of a budget deal, criticizing his Senate colleagues in the Senate.
“If the Senate’s ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ budget is put on the House floor, I will vote no,” he wrote on the social media platform X, arguing it does not cut federal spending enough.
The Texas Republican said that Trump’s agenda “requires boldness from Congress” and railed against Republicans for relying on “selfish vote-buying, big spending pork that got us into this debt crisis.”
“Failure is not an option,” he added. “And the Senate’s budget is a path to failure”
Pelosi attends Pennsylvania ‘Hands Off!’ rally
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) attended a protest against the Trump administration on Saturday in Scranton, Penn., a spokesperson said.
Raskin speaks out against Trump tariffs
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a staunch President Trump critic, slammed the administration over its sweeping tariffs against U.S. trading partners on Saturday, calling it illegal and unconstitutional.
“It is Congress that controls tariffs,” he told the crowd in Washington, adding that the president and tech billionaire Elon Musk do not have the power.
“We are going to turn this around,” he added. “Congress has the power of the purse.”
Protesters gather in the UK against Trump, Musk
Graham touts GOP budget deal
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) celebrated the passage of the Senate’s GOP budget deal shortly after the overnight vote Saturday.
“Tonight, the Senate took one small step toward reconciliation and one giant leap toward making the tax cuts permanent, securing the border, providing much-needed help for the military and finally cutting wasteful Washington spending,” he wrote on the social platform X about the resolution, which still needs to pass through the House.
“Well done,” he added.
Anti-Trump rally organizers say 600,000 people signed up for protests
Indivisible, a progressive group, said about 600,000 people have registered to attend the “Hands Off!” rallies across the country on Saturday.
“It’s time to take to the streets nationwide to let Trump and Musk know they can’t intimidate us into submission,” the group wrote on Bluesky. “Nearly 600,000 people are signed up to attend 1,400 events in every state and seven countries.”
Rosen on GOP budget deal: ‘Billionaires win, families lose’
Sen. Jackie Rosen (D-Nev.) reprimanded her GOP colleagues for passing an “extreme” budget deal early Saturday morning.
“We tried to make changes to protect Medicaid, Medicare, food assistance, and even prevent higher costs for YOU – Republicans blocked them,” she wrote on the social platform X about herself and fellow Democrats.
“They’ve made their priorities clear: billionaires win, families lose,” she added.