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Live updates: LA protests against ICE raids, Trump National Guard, Marines mobilized [1]
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Date: 2025-06-10 07:04:13.233000+00:00
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivers an address at the Shangri-La Dialogue Summit in Singapore on May 31. Mohd Rasfan/AFP/Getty Images
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will be on Capitol Hill for a series of congressional hearings this week. It’s his first time testifying since his confirmation hearings in January.
The administration will be watching how Hegseth defends President Donald Trump’s use of the military domestically — both in California, where Trump activated the California National Guard over the will of state and local officials in response to the LA protests, and at the border, where nearly 10,000 active duty troops have been deployed to help deter migrants from crossing into the US.
On Saturday night, Hegseth posted on X that “the@DeptofDefense is mobilizing the National Guard IMMEDIATELY to support federal law enforcement in Los Angeles. And, if violence continues, active duty Marines at Camp Pendleton will also be mobilized – they are on high alert.”
That comment raised eyebrows both at the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, where officials wondered why Marines would need to be deployed in addition to National Guard troops and what their tasks would be. Lawmakers will likely have similar questions about how the troops have been trained, what their mission is in LA, and what their instructions are for the use of force.
Lawmakers will also have their first chance to question Hegseth under oath about his role in Signalgate, in which he and other national security officials discussed detailed military plans in a text chain that inadvertently included a prominent journalist.
Read more about his hearings over the next week here.
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