WASHINGTON, D.C. — As President Donald Trump and his administration move at breakneck speed to put his stamp on the government, a budding protest movement is beginning to coalesce against his agenda and the lawmakers who support it.

In Ohio, that extends to the state’s two new Republican senators, Bernie Moreno and Jon Husted.

About a dozen members of the liberal grassroots group Ohio Progressive Action Leaders (OPAL) protested outside Moreno’s Columbus office on Wednesday. Attendees said the senator has not made himself accessible to constituents, even though a Moreno staffer last week met with members of Indivisible, a progressive coalition that includes OPAL.

“Some people have managed to make it in, but it's been extremely difficult,” OPAL organizer Meryl Nieman said, adding that she had not personally been able to speak with anyone in the office. “It used to be with Senator Portman, for example, that people could go, constituents could stop in and they would call them up. And if the staffers weren't in the meeting or otherwise unavailable, you could just go up and see your representative.”

Protesters said they wanted Moreno and Husted to hold regular in-person town halls so that constituents can voice their concerns about Trump’s agenda, including his and billionaire Elon Musk’s purge of the federal bureaucracy.

“This administration has gone in with a sledgehammer. They allege that they're fighting fraud and abuse, but there's no evidence of that,” said Janet Chandler of Knox County.

Neither senator’s office had comment on the protest or the scheduling of town halls.

Both Moreno and Husted took office in January and are still setting up their staffs to handle constituent services.

All Senate offices, though, are struggling to keep up with an overwhelming influx of voter feedback, largely in response to the Trump administration’s actions. The Senate phone system shot up from 40 calls a minute to 1,600 in recent weeks, according to reporting by the New York Times.

Wednesday’s protest in Columbus follows a larger one Monday at the Ohio State Capitol, where hundreds gathered for the “Not My Presidents Day” rally protesting the Trump administration.

Despite these events, the backlash to Trump’s initial actions so far is much less intense than in the early weeks of his first term. In Washington, D.C., the “Not My Presidents Day” march drew several thousand people, compared to the estimated 470,000 people at the Women’s March in 2017.