Democrats in the Senate Armed Services Committee call to listen to the use of military personnel in American cities
Each democratic member of the Senate Armed Services Committee joined the Republican President’s demand for the committee to renew a hearing with the Pentagon leaders on the increasing use of the Trump administration for US military personnel in the streets of American cities.
In a letter to the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Roger Wake, R-Miss. The thirteen Democratic Senate members argue with the committee that the American committee and people deserve answers to the cost of spreading individuals and equipment on American cities, influencing military readiness, and influencing the army’s relationship with the American people.
The active service forces and the National Guard in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, have been deployed to support federal and local law enforcement officials assigned to fight crime, protect from protests, and to conduct immigration tasks.
On Monday, President Donald Trump signed a memorandum establishing a work squad in Memphis, Tennessee, which would mobilize the National Guard and Federal Law enforcement officials to combat crime there, similar to the Trump administration’s actions in Washington, DC,
“The effort of the National Guard, as well as the FBI, ATF, Dea, Ice, Homeland Security Investigation, US Marshals, and more,” said in the Oval Office.
Administration officials have also spoke about sending potential forces to New Orleans, Chicago and Badimore.
“These publishing operations can have devastating effects on our military readiness and our reliable relationship between the public and the service who aim to protect them from external threats,” the Democratic Senate members write in their letter to wicker.
In a statement of NBC news, Senator Tami Dakright, DL. As this administration continues to redirect the critical resources of the Ministry of Defense on the basic tasks of our army.
In their letter, members of the Senate calls on the leaders of the Ministry of Defense to appear before the committee to provide answers on how to use the army.
They also argue that there was no transparency on the cost of these publishing operations or how to compare this cost with alternatives. Compared to the use of military personnel and assets compared to the most reasonable alternatives, in the Pentagon, which gives priority to war fighters, some tasks contain forces in administrative and logistical roles that can directly affect their willingness.
And they write that in the Pentagon who gives priority to war fighters, some tasks are “detailed by the Ministry of Defense and military personnel in increasing numbers to provide administrative and logistical assistance to internal law enforcement, with unannounced effects on this type of harsh and realistic training required to build the dead and prepare for basic military missions.”
There were also questions about the legitimacy of publishing operations. During a hearing in Congress on the Pentagon budget in June, Defense Minister Beit Higseth defended Trump’s decision to send thousands of forces to Los Angeles, including 700 actual naval infantry, to respond to protests against administration deportation policies, describing it “preserving law and order.” But he could not say what the legal authority allowed the president to send federal forces to the American streets to support law enforcement.
He said: “I must raise the specified judgment.” “But the office of our general advisor, along with our leadership, reviewed and guaranteed, in the order that we identified, it is completely constitutional for the president to use the federal forces to defend federal law enforcement.”