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