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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Mike Bedigan

Newsom says the ‘political theater’ of Trump’s deployment of National Guard to LA cost taxpayers $120M

Gavin Newsom has said that Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard in Los Angeles has cost the taxpayers almost $120 million.

“Let us not forget what this political theater is costing us all — millions of taxpayer dollars down the drain and an atrophy to the readiness of guardsmembers across the nation and unnecessary hardships to the families supporting those troops,” the California Governor said in a statement Thursday.

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