"The Trump administration's high-profile deployment of federal troops to six U.S. cities has cost taxpayers roughly $496 million through the end of December, and continued deployment could cost over $1 billion for the rest of the year, according to new data from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.President Donald Trump has justified sending National Guard troops into U.S. cities as part of an effort to combat crime and support local law enforcement."
"The CBO published the new data estimating the costs associated with the federal deployments of National Guard and active-duty Marines after a request from Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., who is the ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee."The American people deserve to know how many hundreds of millions of their hard-earned dollars have been and are being wasted on Trump's reckless and haphazard deployment of National Guard troops to Portland and cities across the country," Merkley said in a statement about the CBO report."
"Factored into the estimates are troop deployments to Chicago, Memphis, Portland, as well as Los Angeles in June, when protesters took to the streets in response to a blitz of immigration arrests. The CBO said continued deployments to those cities would cost about $93 million per month."
Federal deployments of National Guard and active-duty Marines to six U.S. cities cost roughly $496 million through the end of December, with projections exceeding $1 billion if deployments continue for the rest of the year. The deployments included operations in Chicago, Memphis, Portland and Los Angeles, and continued presence in those cities would cost roughly $93 million per month. The CBO estimated that deploying 1,000 National Guard personnel to a single U.S. city in 2026 would cost about $18 million to $21 million per month, depending on local cost of living. Deployments have prompted legal challenges and public criticism from some elected officials.
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