Trump Is Stiffing the National Guard Soldiers He Sent to L.A.

[Peacetrain]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-stiffing-national-guard-soldiers-150640675.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

"Forcing people to work for no pay is very on brand for the president. He owes the city of Albuquerque nearly half a million dollars in unpaid safety fees for a 2019 rally. He did a similar dash in cities across the country, racking up millions of dollars in unpaid fees. Some places, like Nassau County, gave up on trying to bill Trump entirely and just ate the $1 million he owed them. Similar instances occurred in Eerie, Pennsylvania; Tuscon, Arizona; and Green Bay and Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin. “He’s welcome here, but we need to have our bills paid. Any expenses incurred by us for him being here, or we don’t really want him here,” Prairie Du Chien Mayor Dave Hemmer said last year. “We are a smaller city and if we incurred expenses like that, we expect to be reimbursed. Or we’d say, ‘Don’t come.’” In his private life as a businessman, Trump frequently refused to pay contractors—hundreds have claimed he stiffed them for completed work as a private citizen.

Now the guardsmen are getting the same treatment ?."

[rzemanfl]

1. LA people, offer these guys a change of clothes, a place to sleep, and a ride home.

Mention that without orders they are exposed to civil and criminal liability. I imagine the law in CA is the same as most places, it is battery to touch a person without their consent.

[Ms. Toad]

2. This is a bit of a stretch.

So far, no one has missed a paycheck. The pay seems to be tied to the unauthorized way in which they were activated - none are formally activated yet. This is expected to be sorted out.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/11/guard-soldiers-deployed-trumps-la-crackdown-arent-getting-paid-yet.html

Although Trump does have a history of skipping on bills, these aren't his personal bills - they are government bills.

[Peacetrain]

3. This was in the middle of this article..

"More than a dozen guardsmen told Military.com that they remain unpaid, as they have yet to receive official activation orders. Receiving such orders would allow them to receive pay, Tricare health benefits, and Department of Veterans Affairs eligibility. Without them, the troops dispatched aren’t getting anything."

It is an opinion piece.. and his history is not good at paying for what he has ordered in his private life period. He does not read or understand how government works. government is not his personal play thing. He definitely does not seem to understand that. These guardsmen are not his personal servants..

[Ms. Toad]

4. They haven't been yet, but their deployment is short enough that they would not normally have been paid yet

And despite his personal history, Trump has virtually nothing to do with the process of activation (which triggers their payment). So despite his lack of understanding of the distinction between personal business and government business, that is not likely to be an issue here. Dreaming up activating the National Guard on a moment's notice is the issue. Processing reality will soon catch up with the order issued and the National Guard will be paid.