Protests target Tesla stores amid anti-Musk feeling

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Doge officials have swiftly gained access to sensitive databases, directed thousands of federal job cuts, cancelled contracts and shut down sections of the government, including the US Agency for International Development.
45% : Liberal groups for weeks have organised anti-Tesla protests in hopes of galvanising opposition to Mr Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) and energising Democrats still demoralised by Mr Trump's November victory.
37% : " Mr Musk is taking direction from Mr Trump to slash federal spending and sharply reduce the workforce, arguing that victory gave the president and him a mandate to restructure the US government.
32% : He leads several other companies, notably SpaceX, which conducts launches for Nasa and the intelligence community, and the social media platform X. "Protests will not deter President Trump and Elon Musk from delivering on the promise to establish Doge and make our federal government more efficient and more accountable to the hardworking American taxpayers across the country," said White House spokesperson Harrison Fields.
26% : By contributor Rodrique Ngowi and Jonathan J Cooper, Associated Press Demonstrators gathered outside Tesla stores across the US on Saturday to protest against the automaker's billionaire chief executive Elon Musk and his push to slash government spending on behalf of President Donald Trump.
25% : Several of the signs mocked Mr Musk and Doge, with one reading: "Stop Elon and his despicable Muskrats." "This government led by Trump and Musk, it's gone completely off the rails and we are here to stop that," said Carina Campovasso, a retired federal worker.

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