The United States Student Association launched a $10,000 funding campaign Tuesday for a “bail fund” that would aid those who get arrested during the organization’s “disruptive” actions. After launching the campaign Tuesday, seven staff and students affiliated with the group were arrested during a Senate Budget Committee hearing Wednesday. Demonstrators chanted “No cuts, no fees, education should be free,” for less than one minute before being led out of the room by Capitol Police.

Despite launching a bail fund campaign the day before the protest, the group says they did not mean to get arrested Wednesday. “We did not plan this action with the intent of getting arrested,” Maxwell Love, the President of the United States Student Association told the Washington Examiner. “Everyone told us it was low-risk, so we did not expect arrests yesterday. There is a possibility the peaceful civil disobedience we want to do next week may mean arrest, but our students think these cuts are so unfathomable that it is worth it.”