Explosive Clash: Pete Hegseth and Betty McCollum Spar Over National Guard Deployment in LA

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10/6/2025

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00:00Mr. Secretary, I plan to ask you some budget questions about the following, the cost of

00:04but then something else happened this weekend and it needs to be addressed

00:08and that is the President's premature and escalatory decision to deploy not only the

00:13National Guard troops to Los Angeles but active duty Marines as well.

00:19History has proven that law enforcement and the National Guard are more than capable of

00:24handling situations more volatile than what happened this weekend. We all see the continuous

00:31loops on TV but this looks nothing like the George Floyd protests or the Rodney King riots in Los

00:37Angeles in 1992. Mr. Secretary, this is a deeply unfair position to put our Marines in. Their

00:44service should be honored. It should not be exploited. The President has issued an executive

00:49order and talked about deploying troops across the country. Well, Congresswoman, thank you for the

00:55question. You are right. We are both originally from Minnesota, which is why I recall 2020 quite well

01:01when Governor Walz abandoned a police precinct and allowed it to be burned to the ground

01:06and also allowed five days of chaos to occur inside the streets of Minneapolis.

01:11The police precinct, ma'am, was abandoned and burned to the ground and because of that the National Guard

01:20was eventually far too late mobilized and President Trump recognizes a situation like that improperly

01:27handled by a governor like it was by Governor Walz if it gets out of control is a bad situation for the

01:33citizens of any location. So in Los Angeles, we believe that ICE, which is a federal law enforcement

01:39agency, has the right to safely conduct operations in any state and any jurisdiction in the country,

01:47especially after 21 million illegals have crossed our border under the previous administration.

01:53ICE ought to be able to do its job, whether it's Minneapolis or Los Angeles.

01:57Mr. Chairman, I have limited time. I asked a budget question. Could the Secretary please address the budget?

02:02You asked about the situation in Los Angeles and we believe ICE agents should be allowed to be safe in doing

02:08their operations and we have deployed National Guard and the Marines to protect them in the execution of

02:13their duties because we ought to be able to enforce immigration law in this country unlike what Governor

02:20Walz did in 2020. There are 17,000 LAPD, you mentioned that. There would be 18,000 if not for the defund

02:28movement that folks like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass have implemented. The police chief said she was

02:34overwhelmed. The secretary is not going to ask the budgetary questions. I will yield back my time if the

02:40secretary refuses to answer the budgetary questions I put before him. They're important. What training

02:45missions aren't happening? Where are you pulling the money from? And how are you planning this in the

02:50moving forward?

02:52So we have the funding to cover down on contingencies, especially ones as important as maintaining law and

02:58order in a major American city. As far as training, all of the units on the ground have been fully trained in their

03:04capabilities of what they're executing on the ground.

03:06Chairman, I ask for budgetary if he needs to get back to the committee with the numbers.

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