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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

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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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.

~snip~

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 | Reply


... 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 | Reply

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

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 | Reply

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