Hegseth, Democrats Tangle over Troop Deployments to Los Angeles

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sparred with Democratic lawmakers Tuesday over the Trump administration's deployment of thousands of National Guardsmen and hundreds of Marines to Los Angeles against state and local officials' wishes to respond to anti-immigration enforcement protests.

Amid the back-and-forth between Hegseth and Democrats at a House Appropriations Committee defense subpanel hearing, the Pentagon's acting comptroller also told lawmakers that the LA deployments are expected to cost at least $134 million.

At the hearing, Hegseth fiercely defended the unprecedented deployments as necessary to allow immigration officials to do their jobs, while Democrats maintained that there was no reason to circumvent state and local officials.

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