Protesters have chained themselves to the doors of a Downtown Pittsburgh building that houses U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey's local office according to a press release Monday morning.

The protesters at 310 Grant Street said they objected to the Republicans' late Friday night passing of a tax bill "that economists say will add more than $1 trillion to the U.S. deficit and transfer wealth from the middle class to the already wealthy."

"This bill was rammed through Congress irresponsibly and hastily by Toomey and his fellow Republicans," said Chelsey Engel, one of the people locked to the building entrance. "Not only does it benefit primarily large corporations, but it will strip away health insurance from 13 million Americans and open up the Arctic Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling."

Engel said last minute bargaining chips like Alaska oil drilling and repeal of the ACA individual mandate were made to gain votes from moderate Republicans including Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Toomey also attempted to introduce Friday night a provision that Democratic sources said would have benefited a well-known conservative school with links to both Toomey and Betsy DeVos, the now U.S. Secretary of Education.

"DeVos donated a massive amount of funds to Toomey's campaign," said Lindsey Disler, another protester. "His loyalty is supposed to lie with his constituents, not with corporations and donors."

Engel said, "Us blocking this entrance is nothing compared to the havoc Republicans have just decided to unleash on the economy. This bill will have negative impacts for decades and is an absolute slap in the face to every single working-class and middle-class American."