The US Military has never been deployed. You miscorrectly incorrectly said yesterday that they were deployed during different elections. Governors deployed them under their authorities. But The US Military has never been deployed [by the federal government] at our polls during World War II, right after 9/11. 9, 11. We've never had to do that. So Secretary Hegseth, if the president who regrets not signing that executive order to the then sec. Def. (03:19–03:28)
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Asserts that the federal government has never deployed the military at polls during major historical events.
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