Thursday, January 29, 2026

2025: Trump's Deployment of National Guard Cost $500 Million

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that Donald Trump's deployment of US Army National Guard troops across major US cities has cost taxpayers nearly half a billion dollars through the end of 2025.

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The operation in Washington, D.C. alone is projected to cost upwards of $660 million if it runs through the end of this year as expected, according to new data released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. n.pr/45FbxN0

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-- NPR (@npr.org) Jan 28, 2026 at 2:21 PM

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Since June 2025, the diabolical Trumpf junta has deployed Army National Guard personnel to six cities -- Los Angeles, Chicago, New Orleans, Memphis TN, Portland OR, and Washington DC"wasting $496m of taxpayer money.

The continued deployment of the National Guard at its current size as of the end of 2025 would cost $93m per month, while deploying 1,000 National Guard troops to a city in 2026 would cost between $18 million to $21 million per month, depending on the city's cost of living, the CBO reports.

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On 26 Nov 2025, just a few blocks from the White House, a lunatic opened fire on two West Virginia Army National Guard Soldiers, killing one and critically wounding the other.

In all of the tumult and riots of the 1960s when US Army National Guard Soldiers were deployed to restore order in Los Angeles, Detroit, Newark, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, and Birmingham, there are no reports of any Soldiers being killed or wounded.

Besides trying to intimidate the American population with this idiotic military deployment of US Soldiers on American soil, this colossal waste of money could be better spent in so many other ways to benefit the American people. Dummkopf Trumpf's profligate nature and wasteful policies are simply destroying the American economy while enriching the oligarchs, White House insiders, and military contractors.

Worst. President. Ever.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-28 11:59 PM


... The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that Donald Trump's deployment of US Army National Guard troops across major US cities has cost taxpayers nearly half a billion dollars through the end of 2025. ...

... but, let's make sure the billionaires get their tax cuts ....

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-29 12:30 AM

Dan Zanes - Rough Spot (1995)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

Wow, lyrics seem to be unavailable ...

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-29 12:37 AM

but, let's make sure the billionaires get their tax cuts ...
- gaslighter

Well if we're going to play whataboutism.

Newsom could help 44 homeless people with that $500 million.

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-01-29 12:56 AM

Oh look, our favorite "liberal" strikes again with a s*&^storm so intense it's a farking turd blizzard.

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-29 10:50 AM

When is MAGA going to final acknowledge that everything they believed is a lie?

They're spending spending spending while gutting services and agencies that conduct critical jobs.

We're getting the worst possible outcome of increased spending but little to nothing for it. Do we even know where the tariff money is?

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-29 10:51 AM

#6 JPW says, "When is MAGA going to final acknowledge that everything they believed is a lie?"

Answer: The 12th of Never ...

... and that's a long, long time.

#7 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-29 10:56 AM

I looked up some rough numbers.
DHS reports 650,000 people deported in 2005.
ICE spending was $28,000,000,000.

Just on those numbers, we're spending $43k per person, to deport mostly non-violent non-criminal aliens.
And we're not even deporting any more people than Biden did.
And Biden did it for like $10K per deportee.

To Republicans, paying 4x more to do something less effectively is a good use of taxpayer dollars.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-29 05:51 PM

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