Labor unions and community activists are gearing up for mass protests on Labor Day hoping to remind Americans of the power of the working class at a time when billionaires are playing an outside role in national politics.
More than a thousand "Workers Over Billionaires” events are planned nationwide in big and small cities on Labor Day and the surrounding days. in an effort to keep the momentum going from other mass demonstrations and keep pressure not only on President DonaldTrump, but also the billionaires who support or benefit from his administration.
“It’s important to show that there is opposition to the Trump-billionaire agenda in every community big and small, it’s not just cities that are united against what’s happening… it’s all towns, it’s small towns that voted overwhelmingly for Trump,” Saqib Bhatti, executive director of Action Center on Race and the Economy, told USA TODAY. “It’s very important to show the opposition is there in all these places."
On Aug. 28 the White House did not respond to a request for comment on the protests. Instead, it provided a quote from Vice President JD Vance about Democrats not voting for the GOP tax and spending bill and a quote from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's press briefing about Labor Day.
