Trump admin updates: Trump calls for expanded deportations in LA, NYC and more

President Donald Trump on Tuesday was asked if he would use the Insurrection Act as a response to the protests in Los Angeles over his administration's immigration crackdown.

"If there's an insurrection, we would certainly invoke it. We will see," Trump responded.

"There were areas of Los Angeles last night where you could call it an insurrection," he later added. He again claimed, without evidence, that the protesters are "paid insurrectionists."

Read more about the Insurrection Act, and what would happen if Trump were to invoke it, here.

The Pentagon’s top budget official is estimating the deployment of U.S. troops to Los Angeles will cost $134 million.

Pentagon Comptroller Bryn Woollacott MacDonnell said the money will be pulled from the troops’ existing operations and maintenance accounts.

Defense Secretary Hegseth said the current plan is for the deployment to last 60 days.

-ABC News' Anne Flaherty

California Democrat Pete Aguilar pressed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Gov. Gavin Newsom's claim that National Guard troops were sent to Los Angeles without food and water and had to sleep on the floor.

"The commanders and troops on the field are very well-prepared, sir," Hegseth responded. "They responded incredibly rapidly to a deteriorating situation with equipment and capabilities ... There are moments where you make do as best you can temporarily, but we are ensuring they are housed, fed, water capabilities in real-time from my office because I care that much about the California Guard and the Marines and the men and women who are supporting crises on the ground."

Hegseth posted two images on X on Monday with a message aimed at Trump: "You sent your troops here without fuel, food, water or a place to sleep. Here they are — being forced to sleep on the floor, piled on top of one another. If anyone is treating our troops disrespectfully, it is you."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he held a riot shield outside the White House during the George Floyd protests in 2020 as he defended the use of armed service members in Los Angeles.

"We have made sure from the top down, as a Secretary of Defense who has been in a unit holding riot shields outside the White House during the chaos of the summer of 2020, I know what it's like to be immeditely deployed into a situation like that," Hegseth said.

Hegseth was a member of the District of Columbia Army National Guard and a Fox News reporter during that time.