The US defense minister Pete Hegseth testified on June 10, 2025 in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, before the congress since his confirmation lists in January, for the first time that Hegseth was the first time that Hegseth was the first time that Hegseth testified for the first time in front of the House Appropriatione Committee in the US -American Capitol. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The Federal Government will cost around 134 million US dollars to the apply of troops and US marines of the National Guard against Protests in Los Angeles, a budget officer of the Pentagon budget on Tuesday, since the response to protests in California and Washington, DC, has shared further
The situation in the second largest city in the country attracted the attention of the legislators in the capital of the country, when the congress led by Republicans took a way for Trump’s tax and the expenditure cut.
On Tuesday, the Democrats in Congress warned the government’s actions on authoritarianism, while President Donald Trump said that the city saved his intervention from destroying.
“If we didn’t quickly send the national guard at the moment, Los Angeles would burn to the ground in the Oval Office on Tuesday.
Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, meanwhile looked for an injunction, which the 4,000 troops of the National Guard and 700 US marines, which were stationed according to Los Angeles, to be used at the domestic law enforcement authorities. Trump ordered the troops to the city via newsoms and Los Angeles Mayor Karen (*134*)’ objection.
Budget question
Democrats on the Capitol Hill criticized the government about various aspects of the mission and said that Trump had initiated violence, exceeded his authority and wasted tax money.
At a previously planned hearing to defend the defense defense, Democratic representative Betty McCollum from Minnesota and Pete Aguillar from California asked Defense Minister Pete Hegseth the financial costs for the placement of 4,000 troops of the National Guard and 700 Marines in Los Angeles.
Hegseth, who originally comes from Minnesota, refused to answer McCollum’s question directly, and instead the riots in Minneapolis referred to the murder of George Floyd by a police officer from Minneapolis in 2020 and said, Trump tried to avoid a similar chaos in Los Angeles.
“President Trump recognizes such a situation that is not properly treated by a governor as if she was a walz from governor (Tim) when it gets out of control, it is a bad situation for the citizens of a place,” he said.
When Aggillar asked a similar question about the costs, Hegseth pushed himself up on the reigning Pentagon (*60*) Bryn Macdonnell, who estimated the current costs at $ 134 million, mainly for living space, travel and food. This money emerged from existing company and maintenance accounts, she said.
Hegseth informed the committee that the assignment was authorized for 60 days.
Just 2 miles away in the White House, implied Trump that the decision could be more open, and said during the Oval Office event that troops would remain in Los Angeles, “until there was no danger”.
“If there is no danger, they will go,” he said.
Removal order
The federal action in California in question questions the operation Submitted on Mondayincluding a request So that the court can issue an injunction until Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Pacific time. The US district judge Charles R. Breyer did not issue such an order after this period.
The administration intended to “use the military personnel to accompany civil servants from the immigration official of the federal immigration in Los Angeles,” the request for an injunction.
“These illegal operations have already proven to be deeply inflammatory and unnecessary provocation, which restricted our laws that restrict the use of the stems for law enforcement, and not a means of restoring the peace,” said the state.
“The federal government by the presence of soldiers on the streets has immediately stopped the city of Los Angeles, the people living there who live there, and the state of California and the state of California and the state of California.”
Democrats in the California Congress Delegation and members of the Congressaucuse for Blacks, Hispanic and Asian and Pacific Insulan Democrats also beat the role of the government when removing the argument between demonstrators and immigration and customs authorities that had carried out recent attacks in jobs in the region.
“President Trump’s illegal decision to use the National Guard on the streets of Los Angeles is a ruthless and inflammatory escalation that was not designed to restore calm, but of chaos,” said Yvette D. Clarke, chairman of the black Caucus congress, at a press conference.
“Let us be clear how this started: with peaceful protests, which were triggered by the illegal and inhumane targeting, imprisonment and deportation of our neighbors.”
In response to the question of a reporter, Clarke, a New York Democrat, said that she believed that the submission of troops was a disabled action by Trump.
“I definitely believe that it is, but we will cross this bridge when we come,” she said.
“Hit with strength”
On Monday and Tuesday, other Democrats on the Capitol Hill said that Trump constructed the conflict in such a way that they distract them from unpopular provisions of the “large, beautiful bill” of the Republicans and other topics.
“Donald Trump, who was driven into the tightness by his own failures – from the pushing of a heartless calculation that tears off the health care of 16 million Americans, to the increase in costs from his ruthless tariffs to war with Elon Musk – Trump is desperately looking for a distraction,” said the democratic leader of the Senate, Chuck Schumer, on Tuesday.
“His command to use the National Guard and Marines – our own troops – on Americans is not only outrageous and provocative, but also a dangerous authoritarian presentation that threatens the tissue of our democracy.”
MP Jimmy Gomez headed a press conference of the US House Democrats in California on Tuesday, where he warned that militarization in Los Angeles could take place elsewhere.
“If it can happen in Los Angeles, it can happen in the Union in every state,” he said.
Later, in the Oval Office, Trump said that demonstrators at his military parade “will be hit with very strong violence”.
“Tarred and Federed”
Mike Johnson, spokesman for the US house, said reporters, Trump acted responsibly to protect Südkalifornians and accused Newsoma for “failed leadership” that he said that he led to the collision this weekend.
When asked whether, such as Trump and the border of the White House, Tom Homan, Newsom should be arrested because he had impaired enforcement of immigration, Johnson initially inflamed before he suggested a punishment from the 18th century.
“I will not give you a legal analysis of whether Gavin Newsom should be arrested,” said the Republican in Louisiana.
“But he should be born and feathered … he stands in the way of the administration and the execution of the Federal Law. He applauds the evil and stands in the way of the good. He tries – he is a participant, an accomplice – with our federal legislators who not only resolved, but are asserted, but asserted.”
Johnson said that the Republicans of the Republicans of House were full of acts behind Trump’s actions and distracted a question whether there would be a point where he would oppose the efforts of the administration.
“He is currently fully in his authority to do what he is doing,” said Johnson. “We have to maintain order.”
