More than 1,000 labor and community organizers flooded the steps of San Francisco ’s City Hall on Wednesday to protest Mayor Daniel Lurie’s proposed budget, which city workers and activists have said insufficiently protects public services.

“This proposed budget completely misses the mark,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, the executive director of the city’s Coalition on Homelessness. “It’s really a politics-first budget that really deprioritizes the poorest and most vulnerable San Franciscans.”

The protest was described as “the biggest budget rally in about 20 years in San Francisco history” by Anya Worley-Ziegmann of the People’s Budget Coalition, a collective of nonprofits and activists that organized the rally.

Lurie proposed steep cuts to address the looming $782 million budget shortf

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