“I don't believe that our National Guard should be up for auction or up for sale,” Rep. Veronica Escobar said.
The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday voted to block states from using private funds to pay for National Guard deployments to other states, just months after one governor accepted private donations to send Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.
“I don't believe that our National Guard should be up for auction or up for sale,” Escobar said in introducing the amendment. “I think that limits transparency — we have no idea who is funding” a potential deployment of Guard troops, she added. The proposal would bar funding from private sources for a cross-state Guard deployment except for emergency or disaster relief efforts.
to pay to deploy up to 50 South Dakota Guardsmen to Texas to add to the overall Guard presence on the border.
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