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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) -- California Governor Gavin Newsom is calling on the federal government to disclose how much American taxpayers paid for the Trump administration’s controversial deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles earlier this year.

On Wednesday, the Governor’s Office announced it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to obtain records from the Department of Defense related to the cost of the June 2025 mobilization, which Newsom has repeatedly called an “illegal militarization of Los Angeles.”

“It’s been 60 days since the federal government deployed the military against its own citizens, over the objection of state and local officials,” Newsom said in a statement. “America

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