A crowd hundreds strong gathered near the NOAA campus in Boulder on Monday to protest cuts made to the agency last week as part of the Trump administration’s effort to downsize the federal government.

Hundreds of people gathered on Monday (March 3) outside National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) offices in multiple U.S. cities to protest the mass firing of employees amid reported cuts in the U.

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside Boulder’s U.S. Department of Commerce building on Monday to oppose layoffs of federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees.

Rallies took place across the region Monday as demonstrators spoke out against the most recent wave of mass terminations of federal employees. The Trump administration said it is drastically cutting the size of the federal workforce to save taxpayers billions of dollars.

BOULDER, Colorado (Reuters) -Over 1,000 protesters gathered outside a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration building in Boulder, Colorado, on Monday, decrying Trump administration layoffs of what two current employees said were upward of 10% of scientists there.

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's office in Boulder after the Trump administration laid off hundreds of workers from the agency.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration workers are protesting in Silver Spring, Maryland, as the Trump administration moves to cut hundreds of jobs. CBS News' Rob Marciano reports.

Protesters said the cuts could have devastating impacts in severe weather situations and in industries like agriculture that depend on forecasting.