Protesters rail against President's 'Murder Budget' outside Trump Tower in NYC

Kerry Burke and Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News on Jul 4, 2025

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NEW YORK — Around 75 demonstrators gathered across the street from Trump Tower Friday afternoon to stage a die-in protesting the passage of what President Donald Trump calls the “Big, Beautiful Bill.”

The protesters call it the “Murder Budget.”

The activists held signs with slogans including “Trump Did This” and “Musk Stole My Medicaid.” Others held the American flag upside down as a signal of distress. They were blocked by metal police gates on the sidewalk from protesting inside Trump Tower’s lobby, as they had hoped to do. Instead they lay down in the bus lane across the street from the building around 4:45 p.m. near Fith Ave. and 57th St. in Midtown Manhattan.

“This bill is a sin against God and man. We have elected a man who has taken over our government and run rampant over our Constitution,” said Jane Lindberg, 69, who held up a couple of upside-down American flags while wearing a knapsack emblazoned with “Trump Is a Liar.”

The protest was organized by Rise and Resist NYC, Indivisible, and Physicians for a National Health Program NY Metro.

“This bill will hurt a lot of people, including people who voted Republican,” said Matthew Cavalletto, 53, a software developer. “The Republicans are claiming to be the party of working people but those are the people who are going to be hurt.”

On Thursday Congress passed the controversial $4.5 trillion budget bill, following on the heels of Senate, which narrowly passed it on Tuesday.

“Trump will sign his budget bill to strip millions of healthcare, kill clean energy, and cut funding for SNAP, all to fund ICE’s lawless reign of terror, and tax cuts for the billionaire class,” Rise and Resist said in a statement.