The National Guard is preparing for its fall training programs, but Donald Trump’s deployments are eating into its operational budget
The National Guard is feeling the cost of Donald Trump’s insistence on using National Guard troops to carry out his expansive immigration roundups and policing actions in Washington, D.C.
National Guard Major General Greg Porter, based in Wyoming, told the state’s lawmakers during a meeting of the Joint Transportation Highways & Military Affairs Committee that the costs of Trump’s National Guard deployments are still unknown, but they’re no doubt eating into the branch’s funds, according to WyoFile.
Porter said that the costs of prolonged deployments will eat into funding intended for things like training and operations.
Oh no! Sounds like a good year for Maralago to get hit with a hurricane.
Blue states need to just form their own coalition for natural disaster responses.
It makes zero sense to constantly bail out red states when the fed won’t help blue states.
What do you mean? The president is sending the military to help out DC. It might not be the help needed, or the help wanted. But it’s help!
Or the help that is useful
Great idea, truly.
New England, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia all form an emergency response fund to only help one another. We all still get FEMA but we also have additional funds available.
Hire all the disenfranchised weathermen or something idk.
Blue states need to just form their own coalition for natural disaster responses.
That would require raising taxes and hiring more public staff, which neoliberal mayors and governors have been absolutely allergic to since Clinton.
California’s status as World’s Seventh Largest Economy matters less when they’ve the population of Canada but with 30% less state income. That, plus these states don’t control their own currency. It would be a dozen liberal Argentinas in practice.
California’s status as World’s Seventh Largest Economy
Well, now it is the fourth largest, but point taken.
Knowing the fucked up universe we live in, we’ll have a good 4 year stretch of no major disasters while Trump is President. God loves a good joke.
Worked out for him last time with the pandemic.
Maybe the Dems will fire up the ole weather machine /s
POV: When you built too many units in your Civ game and your gold and happiness goes to negative and rebel units start spawning. (Except it’s in IRL with real human suffering)
That’s the best time to invade your neighbors. Unfortunately.
Enjoy your horrible death during the Canadian War. We’re gonna make Vietnam look like a spa day.
So what I’m hearing is, “ICE needs more funding?”
- Trump
Good. Hope it impacts readiness across the board.
I thought the idea was that Trump wasn’t paying them? As in that’s the point, the Federal government is forcing the states to foot the bill as a sign of fealty.
Even if that’s the case, these are largely states that are in the red financially. They may be fine throwing national guard money at DC, LA, and their blue cities, but wait till it hits them in the basic functions.
Military deployment is expensive, and state budgets weren’t written with the idea that the national guard was going to spend the bulk of the current administration deployed
DOGE, what a joke!
I cannot describe how much I hate this cheeto looking dipshit.
They’ve got money to throw at ICE and build their alligator Auschwitz, they’ll just print more money to throw at the Guard. Republicans love blowing budgets on punishments.
Dont worry they can just print more /s
Nice
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Sounds like some people about to get fired.
If anyone, it’ll be this guy Gen Porter reporting the bad news
If only the US Federal departments were set up to stop operations when budgets run out. But alas, the US government loves debt.
They are. It’s why everything in the federal government shuts down when the debt ceiling is hit.
There are exceptions made for critical functions, such as emergency management and the military and such. However, IIRC they don’t get paid until Congress approves more funding; they still have to show up. National Guard troops sent out to deal with the toddler-in-chief’s latest tantrum aren’t going to be any happier if they don’t get paid.
This is useful to know. ICE is getting paid and are very willing participants. The National Guard isn’t so willing and may not be getting paid, but they will defend themselves and follow specific orders. Any civil action should take this into account.
