# Several thousand protest Trump policies in downtown Washington

https://mins.news/en/item/36339

- TASS, 2026-08-29 01:40 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://tass.com/world/2179191

> Several thousand people joined the “March on Washington: 2026. Let’s defend the right to vote” on the National Mall. Speakers including Bernie Sanders and Hakeem Jeffries criticized Donald Trump’s policies, while protesters demanded protection of voting rights and equal rights for Black Americans and carried slogans opposing restrictions on mail-in voting and other civil liberties.

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