A local group of about 20 people gathered outside The Pueblo Chieftain's offices Wednesday to protest the tax bill passed by Congress and signed by President Trump.

In a press release by the group, Indivisible Pueblo, they said that "we residents of Pueblo and Southern Colorado are outraged by the $1.5 trillion tax plan that barreled its way to a fait accompli."

"... this act offers the working and middle class little or nothing, crumbs from the common table that will only become scarcer in the context of the spiraling deficit."

The group was critical of two Colorado Republicans who voted for the measure: U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, who represents the Third Congressional District; and U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner.

The group in its release said the two "ran along with the president's scam, not representing their low income and elderly constituents left out in the cold. Both members will be up for re-election (Tipton in 2018; Gardner in 2020) ... We can do better, Colorado."