During Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s testimony on Capitol Hill, Rep. Betty McCollum, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, asked the cost of sending Marines and the National Guard to Los Angeles and what resources were being taken away by the move, but Hegseth repeatedly did not answer the question.

California National Guard troops arrived in Los Angeles on Sunday in a show of force following scattered clashes between immigration agents and protesters and amid a widening political divide between California and the Trump administration.

An Australian television journalist was hit in the leg by a rubber bullet Sunday while reporting live from downtown Los Angeles on the large-scale protests over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and subsequent deployment of California National Guard troops to the city.

Tear gas was used against protesters outside a federal detention center in Los Angeles on Sunday, creating a tense moment during an otherwise largely peaceful day of immigration raid demonstrations.