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newdeal2

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17. Pete's Pentagon today

Reply to JoseBalow (Reply #16)

Tue Jun 10, 2025, 04:36 PM

Jun 10

Trump deployment of National Guard, Marines to LA will cost $134 million: Pentagon official

President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles as immigration-enforcement protests continue will cost about $134 million, a Pentagon official said Tuesday.

Acting Pentagon Comptroller Bryn Woollacott MacDonnell said that estimate is largely based on costs of housing, travel and food for the troops.

McDonnell spoke at a House subcommittee hearing, where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was testifying.

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$134 million dollars for the Marines stunt [View all] newdeal2 Jun 10 OP

His agenda is to completely destroy the USA for pootin. He's doing a great fucking job. SheltieLover Jun 10 #1

Being aided and abetted by kacekwl Jun 10 #3

Absofuckingloutely! SheltieLover Jun 10 #4

Marines ain't needed. But if it costs $134 M to transport 700 Marines from Twentynine Palms, they must be Silent Type Jun 10 #2

This is what drunk Pete said today newdeal2 Jun 10 #5

I don't buy the number. If he didn't deploy them to L.A., ... JustABozoOnThisBus Jun 10 #8

Agree. It's like the estimate for trump's military parade. I think they add in cost of building already existing tanks, Silent Type Jun 10 #15

trump is billing the kacekwl Jun 10 #10

Been cheaper just to send Gomer Pyle in with a bullhorn yelling: RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Jun 10 #6

They could stay at the Beverly Hills Hotel ... Tarzanrock Jun 10 #7

Boys might have some real grift in there. bob4460 Jun 10 #9

Where is that dipshit, Andrew Yang, and Eloon Mu$krat ... Tarzanrock Jun 10 #14

We got deployed to Taiwan in '63. Ping Tung Jun 10 #11

Make America Russia Again IronLionZion Jun 10 #12

Well if them libruls would just stop protesting... progressoid Jun 10 #13

Where did that figure come from? JoseBalow Jun 10 #16

Pete's Pentagon today newdeal2 Jun 10 #17

I have three Federal programs that can be bare bones funded for five years on that money. haele Jun 10 #18