Billionaire GOP Donor Bankrolls National Guard Border Deployment Time 7 hrs ago W.J. Hennigan © Elijah Nouvelage Bloomberg/Getty Images Kristi Noem, governor of South Dakota, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, on Feb. 27, 2021.
As many as 50 National Guard members are heading to the U.S.-Mexico border to help law enforcement deal with the ongoing migrant crisis. But the cost of the deployment isn’t being paid by local, state or federal government. Instead, a deep-pocketed Republican donor who made billions from auctioning off wrecked cars is footing the bill.
The peculiar arrangement was revealed Tuesday when South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem formally announced that she was sending National Guard troops from her state down to the southern border in Texas. A news release stated the deployment, which is expected to last for between 30 and 60 days, “will be paid for by a private donation.”
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