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Members of the California Nationa Guard basal ticker extracurricular the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building connected the greeting of June 10, 2025, pursuing different time of protests successful effect to national migration operations successful Los Angeles.
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President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles to woody with immigration-enforcement protests volition outgo astir $134 million, a Pentagon authoritative said Tuesday.
Acting Pentagon Comptroller Bryn Woollacott MacDonnell said that estimation is mostly based connected costs of housing, question and nutrient for the troops.
McDonnell spoke astatine a House subcommittee hearing, wherever Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was testifying.
She said that the deployment, which arsenic of present comprises 4,000 members of the California National Guard and astir 700 Marines, is being funded by the military's Operation & Maintenance accounts.
Hegseth defended the necessity of deploying the troops. He said that the deployment would past 60 days.
"Every American national deserves to unrecorded successful a assemblage that's safe, and ICE agents request to beryllium capable to bash their job," Hegseth said, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
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