We must shut down USAID to save money but when it comes to siccing the police* on protesters money is no object.

Deploying National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles will cost at least $134 million and last at least the next 60 days, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and a senior defense official told lawmakers Tuesday.

“We stated very publicly that it’s 60 days because we want to ensure that those rioters, looters and thugs on the other side assaulting our police officers know that we’re not going anywhere,” Hegseth told members of the House appropriations defense subcommittee.

Hegseth was repeatedly asked by members of Congress about the cost of the deployment, then conferred with his acting comptroller, Bryn Woollacott MacDonnell, who provided the figure and said it was “largely just the cost of travel, housing and food.”

For a display of Trump’s power and indifference to norms. Not worth a dime, let alone $134 million.

California has filed an emergency request for a court order that would prevent President Trump and the Department of Defense from expanding the current mission of federalized National Guard members and Marines. The request is part of a lawsuit over the federalization of the California National Guard, which is usually deployed by the governor at the request of local authorities.

On account of how that’s what it’s for.

*The police and then the National Guard and the Marines