Trump's LA national guard deployment cost taxpayers $120m, Newsom says

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Source: The Guardian

Thu 4 Sep 2025 21.41 EDT
Last modified on Thu 4 Sep 2025 21.42 EDT


Donald Trump’s deployment of the national guard in Los Angeles in response to protests in the city over immigration raids cost taxpayers nearly $120m, the California governor’s office said on Thursday.

The US president sent 2,000 national guard troops into the city in June amid clashes between federal immigration agents and protesters. This week a judge ruled that dispatching the military to accompany authorities on immigration enforcement operations violated federal law.

More than 4,200 national guard soldiers and 700 marines were deployed in the region. Although relatively few assisted with raids, the costs mounted – $71m for food and necessities, $37m in pay and $3.5m in travel, among other expenses, Gavin Newsom’s office said in a statement. About 300 troops remain in the city.

Newsom described the move as “waste, fraud and abuse”.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/04/trump-national-guard-deployment-los-angeles

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Newsom described the move as “waste, fraud and abuse”.

Waste. Fraud. Abuse!

[Bengus81]

1. $9.1B being stolen from Medicaid per year to pay for shit stunts like this

WASTE FRAUD AND ABUSE..............

[Walleye]

2. Because soldiers playing dress-up and marching around in the streets

Is an essential duty of the federal government. But hiring scientists for the CDC is just frivolous.

[twodogsbarking]

3. Give those Medicaid recipients a weapon. That will save money.

But don't rule it out.

[70sEraVet]

4. I hadn't given a thought as to who pays those National Guard troops.

My home-state of Tennessee sent 160 National Guardsmen to D.C.. Who actually pays for that? Is it just Tennessee taxpayers for those 160 troops, or did Tennessee put ALL US taxpayers on the hook?

[travelingthrulife]

6. I wish it were just Tennessee paying for their own foolishness, but it is a federal

effort so I guess 'we the people' get to pay for him and his friends to assault our cities.

[TomSlick]

8. The Guard troops are under Federal (Title X) orders.

The costs are paid by the US Department of Defense.

[Initech]

5. All so he can look good on his stupid news programs.

[republianmushroom]

7. Damn near as much as trumps golf outing have cost todate.