Republican governors volunteered over 1,200 troops for D.C. deployment while Democratic governors resist. Who pays for this political military theater?

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Federal taxpayers fund this entire political operation. When governors like Jeff Landry (Louisiana) and Bill Lee (Tennessee) volunteer troops to help Trump intimidate Democratic cities, your taxes pay for it. South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster explicitly confirmed "the federal government will pay for the deployment." Taxpayers fund both sides of Trump's political war—paying for Republican governors to send troops AND paying for Democratic governors to fight the deployments in federal court. Americans subsidize their own constitutional crisis.

Republican governors volunteered over 1,200 troops for D.C. deployment while Democratic governors resist. Who pays for this political military theater?

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