Posted on 07/28/2025 7:28:37 AM PDT by TheDon
WASHINGTON (TNND) — A new Senate bill holds states accountable to pay back costs for deploying military resources when those states refuse to enforce federal immigration law.
It's called the State Accountability for Federal Deployment Costs Act, and it is in direct response to the violent ICE raids in California, after the deployment of the National Guard cost about $130 million.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, who co-sponsored the bill, said she was asked, "who pays for this?" She said she and other lawmakers looked into it and learned the Department of Defense (DOD) was not being reimbursed when they had to call on the National Guard to help manage the situation and restore public peace.
You’ve got taxpayers in every state in the country that are footing that bill and DOD is having to take money away from projects that are a part of our national military mission in order to fund that work,” Blackburn told The National News Desk’s Jan Jeffcoat during an interview Thursday. “So, this requires those states and cities to reimburse the federal government when troops are deployed.”
Well if it needs 60 votes it’s doa.
The proper way to do this is to cut back on federal aid to law enforcement.
(Hopefully, we zero federal aid to law enforcement; but, until we do, conditioning this aid on cooperation with federal law enforcement is entirely appropriate.)
Money well spent. They are Communist hot spots with fake elections. It looks like an invasion of a foreign country because that is what these states have essentially become.
It would be better for the officials responsible to be charged personally. Send them the bills.
The proper way to do this is to cut back on federal aid to law enforcement.
(Hopefully, we zero federal aid to law enforcement; but, until we do, conditioning this aid on cooperation with federal law enforcement is entirely appropriate.)
Give the first bill to Gavin Newsom in California.
He can use the state money “earmarked” for the failed high speed rail.
Calif doesn’t have 2 cents to rub together
How ya gonna get them to pay?
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