DOGE budget protesters returned to the Capitol for the tenth week, as 25 fired federal workers pressed Congress in Washington, D.C. to investigate layoffs and restore gutted government agencies, spotlighting the surreal standoff between bureaucracy and cryptocurrency logic.

Group leader Eric Hilaker met senators Suzanne Collins and Chris Van Hollen to show how lost jobs threaten Meals on Wheels and Medicaid. Their plea is fuelling searches for “federal budget protests” as social feeds thrum like a bureaucratic drumline in the rain.