Protesters marched in St. Paul Thursday to fight against federal funding cuts to the public health sector.
Due to cuts by the Trump Administration, Minnesota has lost nearly $300 million in federal funding and hundreds of jobs at the Minnesota Department of Health.
"Our entire unit will be impacted if we get bumped and laid off, and there will be no one to work on vector-borne diseases," said one protestor.
The people gathered at the capitol Thursday says they're fed up.
"I don't think there's words to describe how all of us are feeling," another protestor explains. "Angry, tired, sad, just disheartened. Because this affects every single person in Minnesota, and that's what people are failing to understand."
The March went from the Freeman Office Building to the Centennial Building with one protester saying “hopefully, this will help.”
Those gathered say the programs at risk are vital to keeping Minnesotans safer and healthier.
"Having safe drinking water, food, vaccines actually are one of the bigger causes of higher life expectancy in the U.S.," another protestor tells WCCO. "And when you start stripping some of those things away, you start having people die earlier, have more issues that actually cost our state and our country more than preventing some of these issues."