Thousands of demonstrators showed up at the Idaho State Capital on Saturday for the Hands Off Rally as people voiced their frustration at the current administration at the federal and the state level.
Signs were everywhere, but a majority of them focused on President Trump and Elon Musk as people are upset over the Doge and the federal layoffs, the administration’s foreign policy and most recently the tariffs.
“We all have to stand together, we are all being put upon by our president and Elon Musk,” said Amber Vonacker, a demonstrator. “We have to fight for ourselves and our own rights look what happened to the stock market the last two days, it is going to hurt us all.”
I ran into a probationary worker who lost her job working for the Bureau of Reclamation in Minidoka near Burley. Tara Hallman previously worked for the National Parks Service, but now she’s looking for a new job.
“I’ve already dedicated my life for the past ten years to the federal government and thought that gave me a stable job and work for a high level agency,” said Hallman. “Unfortunately, that has all ended.”…