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.
53 Comments
Zerlyna@lemmy.world · 111 pts · 362d
Oh no! Sounds like a good year for Maralago to get hit with a hurricane.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 362d
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.
hddsx@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 362d
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!
danc4498@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 362d
Or the help that is useful
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 12 pts · 361d
or even help at all
turtlesareneat@discuss.online · 9 pts · 361d
OK over this way, sir, you are being detained
foggy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 361d
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.
chocrates@piefed.world · 2 pts · 361d
Typically fema helps regardless. I don't think that has changed so far this year.
crusa187@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 361d
They try, but many conservative rubes have been conned into thinking fema is there to repossess their house or something. They actively avoid/threaten fema workers, whilst placing themselves and others in danger attempting to do fema’s job. Our propaganda is such poison in the US.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 362d
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.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 362d
Well, now it is the fourth largest, but point taken.
errer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 361d
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.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 360d
Worked out for him last time with the pandemic.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 361d
Maybe the Dems will fire up the ole weather machine /s
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 57 pts · 361d
I thought one of the first rules about being an evil dictator is to make sure to pay your troops decently so they don’t turn on you.
He’s gonna find out pretty quick that loyalty goes out the window when they’re not getting paid.
morphballganon@mtgzone.com · 27 pts · 361d
They'll keep getting paid. And this admin will keep stealing money to do it.
Azal@pawb.social · 21 pts · 361d
It's Trump, the guy who bankrupted a casino and regularly doesn't pay people he contracts.
If he started paying people and keeping anything without going to insolvency I'd think he'd been killed and a lizard was wearing his skin suit.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 360d
I hear reports they're having to cake makeup on his hands to prevent what's underneath from showing through
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 361d
We need more lizards.
piecat@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 361d
Shhhhhh that's for the educated to know and him to fibd out.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 361d
It's not actually on the list.
WatDabney@sopuli.xyz · 53 pts · 362d
Sure a good thing that the responsible and conscientious conservatives elected a right-thinking president who's going to cut wasteful spending and balance the budget, hmm?
Imagine what it would be like if instead a rabble of petulant, frightened assholes elected a deranged overgrown toddler who pissed away billions on whatever idiocy happened to trigger his stunted emotions on any given day.
Corelli_III@midwest.social · 37 pts · 361d
pretending USD is going to have value as the empire is attacking itself while charging itself bills for it
"oh its costing a millions yankee doodleys every day to hit ourselves, this is real and money has value, your student loans are definitely real, oh no now he's in chicago spending a zillion doodleys everyone"
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 35 pts · 361d
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)
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 361d
That's the best time to invade your neighbors. Unfortunately.
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 360d
Enjoy your horrible death during the Canadian War. We're gonna make Vietnam look like a spa day.
Zier@fedia.io · 28 pts · 362d
There was a report that D.C. is costing $1 million a day. If he does 19 more cities, it's $20M a day. I guess those DOGE cuts are gone.
ZephyrXero@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 362d
Those cuts were never about the money. They'll just print more
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 361d
IMO Doge activities were a smoke screen for a massive data grab
thedruid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 361d
I'd bet money you ain't voicing an opinion. It's a fact
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 360d
Long term prediction:
Trump will be gone within a decade one way or another. He will have done incalculable damage to the US economy. We'll be in "try anything" mode, and this is where MMT will have its first large scale test.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 12 pts · 361d
im still 100% that doge actions raised costs and did not save squat.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 361d
The numbers agreed with you -- severance ate a lot of the proposed savings, and the wrongful termination or constructive dismissal lawsuits haven't even ramped up.
Add this in and The US will be sorely equipped to fend off the next coup.
#insert <suddenClarityClarence.jpg>
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 361d
The doge cuts actually cost us money. And that's not counting all the damage the lack of services will cause the economy by no longer existing
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 361d
So what I'm hearing is, "ICE needs more funding?"
- Trump
ansiz@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 361d
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.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 361d
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
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 361d
Exactly. It’s easy to say “make the states pay for it” until the states start pulling from their primary services to fund it.
Oh, you need to renew your car registration? Too bad, because the DMV is only open one day a week now, and they’re by appointment only. The earliest appointment you can get is six months from now. But at least we have boots on the ground, right?
ansiz@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 361d
I agree, but that really is the point. Strain government services so they are shit, then use that as an excuse to privatize it as much as possible and funnel the funding to the oligarchs.
Deflated0ne@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 362d
Good. Hope it impacts readiness across the board.
DrSleepless@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 361d
DOGE, what a joke!
idntknow@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 362d
I cannot describe how much I hate this cheeto looking dipshit.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 361d
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.
potato_wallrus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 361d
MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 361d
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 361d
Nice
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 361d
Dont worry they can just print more /s
Master167@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 361d
If only the US Federal departments were set up to stop operations when budgets run out. But alas, the US government loves debt.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 360d
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.
beemikeoak@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 361d
Just tax us more and set up a parade for the kid's bday.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 361d
Why are they paying for it themselves when operating under federal orders?
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 361d
yeah I don't get this. one reason govenors request federalization during emergencies is because when under fed control they use fed funds.
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 362d
Sounds like some people about to get fired.
imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 361d
If anyone, it'll be this guy Gen Porter reporting the bad news