The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which Trump signed into law on July 4, is a focal point of the protests, including concerns over potential cuts to Medicaid.

People protest against the Trump administration during a Good Trouble Lives On demonstration at Granada Square in Pensacola on July 17, 2025.

"I think his policies are a huge overreach of power and they are going to harm significantly more people than they help," Varley said.

Democratic senators on Thursday walked out of a meeting to vote on Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyer Emil Bove’s nomination to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

"We are all alarmed by DOJ leadership's recent deviations from constitutional principles and institutional guardrails," the former department employees wrote, adding that he had "disgraced" the depar...