Trump’s LA national guard deployment cost taxpayers $120m, Newsom says | Los Angeles
The Governor of California said on Thursday that Donald Trump deployed the national guards in Los Angeles in response to protests on migration raids in the city, taxpayers in Los Angeles cost of approximately 120 million dollars.
The US President sent 2,000 National Guard Union to the city in June in the midst of conflicts between Federal Immigration Agents and Protesters. This week, a judge decided that sending the army to accompany the army to immigrant implementation operations violated the federal laws.
More than 4,200 national guards and 700 sailors were assigned in the region. Gavin Newsom’s office, although relatively few raids in a relatively few raids, costs increased – 71 million dollars for food and needs, $ 37 million payment and 3.5 million dollars travel, as well as other expenses, as well as other expenses expression.
About 300 soldiers remained in the city.
The Newsom movement described the movement as “waste, fraud and abuse ..
“Let’s not forget that this political theater costs all of us – millions of taxpayers are the dollar, the guards are ready for the country and the atrophy of families supporting these troops,” he said.
Newsom has opposed the deployment from the very beginning. In June, he filed a lawsuit, called an unseen and illegal move and a “a distinctive step towards authoritarianism”. Meanwhile, the president took action to send the national guards to other democratic cities in the United States.
On Tuesday, Judge Charles Breyer decided that the deployment was illegal, and the threats of the President’s national guards to another place created a “national police force with the president”.
“The defendants started the deployment of the National Guard and Marine Posts to Los Angeles for a month in order to establish a military asset and implement the federal law.
According to the statement, Newsom’s office requested a public records to determine the costs of federalization of the national guards and activating sailors that the federal government did not respond. The national guards of the state made calculations to the governor.
The office warned that it is “real financial and social costs ve and emphasized the effects on soldiers – a hurry distribution process that forces soldiers to sleep on the floors and to use facilities without running the facilities.
In recent weeks, Trump has sent national guards to Washington DC and threatened additional deployment in Chicago, New York and other cities.
