Anti-Musk protesters gather outside Tesla dealership in Washington

23/3/2025 7:02

Roughly 100 people

waved signs and danced in protest outside a Tesla dealership in

Washington on Saturday, angry at the electric vehicle maker's

billionaire CEO Elon Musk, who has led efforts to sharply cut

the federal workforce.



Cars driving past the demonstration honked at the protesters

whose signs featured photos of Musk, the world's richest man.

President Donald Trump appointed Musk to lead efforts to

downsize the federal government, which has thousands of workers

in the nation's capital.



Trump tapped Musk to lead a task force dubbed the

Department of Government Efficiency, which so far has overseen

cuts of more than 100,000 jobs across a federal civilian

workforce of more than 2 million people. DOGE has also pushed

for the freezing of foreign aid and the canceling of thousands

of programs and contracts.