A protest that started over the weekend in Los Angeles, California continues as it has escalated.

Sources say, President Donald Trump on Sunday deployed 2,000 California National Guard troops to control the situation in Los Angeles that began as protests against federal agents making several arrests of immigrants in that area. US Senator Chuck Grassley says the President’s most important responsibility is protecting the American people, as well as another area under the federal government purview.

“In particularly when it comes to destruction of federal property, I think the President has the right to protect that, to protect the taxpayers from the rehabilitation that it’s going to cost from the damage that’s done.”   

Grassley shares one example of that from 2020 following the death of George Floyd, where protesters in downtown Portland, Oregon damaged the federal courthouse that was located there. Sources say that the use of the National Guard is typically issued by a state governor, which California Governor Gavin Newsom did not do, so President Trump stepped in and executed the deployment.

Grassley adds that the President’s job is to enforce the law and court orders, along with protecting property, which he believes President Trump is doing in Los Angeles, California.