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Details@Capital1.com Live from NPR News In Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. President Trump's border czar Tom Homan held a press conference last hour in Minneapolis. He says he's talked with several Minnesota state and local leaders. President Trump deployed Homan after federal immigration agents shot killed a second Minneapolis protester last weekend. Homan says he's there to uphold Trump's immigration policy, but he says there aren't going to be some changes.
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The mission is going to improve because of the changes we're making internally. No agency organization is perfect. President Trump and I, along with others in the administration, have recognized that certain improvements could and should be made. That's exactly what I'm doing here.
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But Homan says any withdrawal of federal troops on the ground in Minnesota will depend on cooperation from Minnesota authorities. FBI agents have searched an elections office in Georgia. One local Georgia official who was inside the Fulton county office yesterday says FBI agents were seizing ballots from the 2020 presidential election. George has been at the center of President Trump's false claims. The election was stolen from him. He repeated the lie this morning. NPR's Stephen Fowler reports. This is the latest salvo in the ongoing fight over baseless claims of election rigging in 2020.
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The FBI wouldn't answer NPR's questions about the search warrant for the Fulton county elections warehouse outside of Atlanta, but Georgia's most populous county has been the subject of baseless claims of election fraud since 2020. Last month, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit seeking to gain access to Fulton County's ballots and and a state court judge recently allowed the Republican majority State Election Board to move forward with a subpoena for 2020 documents, too. This as the DOJ has sued 25 states, including Georgia, seeking access to unredacted copies of their voter rolls. Steven Fowler, NPR News, Atlanta.
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For months, the Trump administration has offered little information on how much the president's National Guard deployments in American cities have cost taxpayers. But as NPR's Juliana Kim reports, congressional budget analysts now say these operations are on pace to surpass $1 billion this year.
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Last year, it cost more than half a billion dollars to pay for President Trump's domestic troop deployments. It could be double that this year if current operations remain in place. The use of troops in Washington, D.C. alone could cost $660 million. That's according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, it's a tiny fraction in the country's trillion dollar. But state leaders and government watchdog groups argue that these deployments aren't a good use of taxpayer dollars. The White House did not respond to a request for comment, but Trump has repeatedly defended the use of troops and suggested sending them to more cities. Juliana Kim, NPR News.