Johnson: Deploying Marines to Los Angeles protests would not be ‘heavy-handed’

Republicans Offer Cowardly Lack Of Pushback To Hegseth Suggesting Marines Could Quell Protests

"I don’t think that’s heavy-handed," House Speaker Mike Johnson said about the possibility of sending active-duty military to respond to immigration protests in a major American city.

Johnson: Deploying Marines to Los Angeles protests would not be ‘heavy-handed’

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that deploying the Marine Corps to Los Angeles to suppress protests, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has suggested, would not be “heavy-handed.”

House speaker says deploying Marines in Los Angeles not "heavy-handed"

Mike Johnson backed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's call for active-duty Marines to be on "high alert" amid ongoing protests in Los Angeles.