Federalizing the National Guard for protests has been rare in American history, and when it has happened, it has often been remembered as controversial,” said Hinckley Institute of Politics director Jason Perry.

California Governor Gavin Newsom is calling on the federal government to disclose how much American taxpayers paid for the Trump administration’s controversial deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles earlier this year.

Nearly two months after President Trump took the extraordinary step of deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles to quell public unrest over immigration raids, the Pentagon on Wednesday announced that it was withdrawing more than a thousand troops.