Governor of Iowa Taps COVID-19 Funds to Send Troops to Mexico Border

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) is the latest GOP state leader to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, deploying 109 Guardsmen to Texas Wednesday. 

The deployment, meant to assist Texas’s border security effort Operation Lone Star, will be paid for by the Biden administration’s COVID-19 relief package known as the American Rescue Plan Act, according to a statement from Reynolds’s office.  

The act, which President Biden signed into law in 2021, was uniformly opposed by Republicans. 

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