SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom stated Thursday that President Trump’s resolution to deploy Nationwide Guard troops to Los Angeles amounted to pricey political theater, saddling taxpayers with an almost $120-million invoice.
Newsom’s workplace stated the newly revealed price ticket was tallied from estimates supplied by the California Nationwide Guard about prices incurred since June, when Trump despatched greater than 4,200 Nationwide Guard troopers and 700 Marines to Los Angeles. That included $71 million for meals and different primary requirements, $37 million in payroll, $4 million in logistic provides, $3.5 million in journey and $1.5 million in demobilization prices, Newsom’s workplace stated.
A lot of the troopers had been despatched house in August, though 300 stay in Los Angeles.
On Tuesday, a federal choose in San Francisco barred troopers from aiding immigration arrests in a scathing opinion that amounted to a serious win for California and different states important of the Trump administration’s deployments. Newsom filed a preliminary injunction after the ruling asking that the courtroom block a brand new order from the U.S. Secretary of Protection that prolonged the deployment of 300 Nationwide Guard members in Los Angeles till after the election in November.
“Allow us to not neglect what this political theater is costing us all — hundreds of thousands of taxpayer {dollars} down the drain and an atrophy to the readiness of guardsmembers throughout the nation and pointless hardships to the households supporting these troops,” Newsom stated in an announcement. “Discuss waste, fraud, and abuse. We ask different states to do the maths themselves.”
In Washington, D.C., the place Trump has deployed the Nationwide Guard to the nation’s capital, metropolis leaders filed a lawsuit earlier this week. That lawsuit stated greater than 2,200 Nationwide Guard troops are in Washington D.C., the place they’re seen wearing army fatigues and carrying rifles round nationwide monuments. Troopers are seen selecting up trash, laying down mulch and chatting aimlessly as they patrol.
Trump has warned that he intends to develop his use of army forces in different cities.
