SACRAMENTO — The Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles this summer has cost taxpayers $120 million, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday.

The figure is based on calculations provided by the California National Guard at the governor’s request following the federal government’s deployment of 4,200 National Guard soldiers and 700 U.S. Marines to the city in June.

Three hundred National Guard troops remain deployed in the city.

“Let us not forget what this political theater is costing us all — millions of taxpayer dollars down the drain, an atrophy to the readiness of guards members across the nation and unnecessary hardships to the families supporting those troops,” Newsom said in a statement.

“Talk about waste, fraud and abuse,”

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