Wondering about the costs of “deploying” troops to the States that didn’t vote for Trump?
The Trump administration’s controversial deployments of National Guard troops to six American cities since June cost about $496 million in 2025, and continuing the existing deployments as is would cost about $93 million per month, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.
And for each additional Guard unit that is activated in the future, costs will increase by $18 million to $21 million per 1,000 soldiers, according to a CBO letter released Wednesday. [Roll Call]
Ouch. And the traditional lie from Trump:
Trump has said that the deployments are necessary to quell violence in Democrat-controlled cities, tamp down crime and support operations to deport undocumented immigrants.
Too bad Roll Call didn’t refute the lies through examination of crime statistics, as it’s been reported Minneapolis has lower crime, sometimes much lower, than other cities. I live in a suburb of St. Paul, across the Mississippi Rover from Minneapolis, and the streets have been peaceful for years.
