Price tag for Trump’s D.C. deployment of National Guard: $1.4B more through 2029
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The deployment of National Guard troops hailing from states all across the country to Washington, D.C., is expected to cost taxpayers more than $1.4 billion in additional funds through 2029, an administration nominee told a Senate committee.
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WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 21: Members of the U.S. National Guard walk up the steps at the Lincoln Memorial on July 21, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)
The administration deployed National Guard personnel to Washington in August 2025, after a former staffer in Elon Musk’s DOGE Service was assaulted in an attempted carjacking.
The Pentagon’s deployment of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., is projected to cost an additional $1.4 billion through the end of President Donald Trump’s term, according to information provided to Congress and confirmed by the Washington Examiner.
The extension of the National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C. until January 2029 will cost roughly $1.4 billion, according to a Defense Department estimate provided to Congress. The figure offers a glimpse of how much taxpayer money will be spent…
The Pentagon’s deployment of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., is reportedly projected to cost another $1.4 billion through the end of President Trump’s second term, according to information the Pentagon provided to Congress. The estimate, given to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.
The deployment has been criticized by local officials as an infringement of their city’s autonomy and by Democrats who say it has militarized the streets at the public’s expense.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s planned deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., through the end of his presidential term will cost $1.43 billion, or $51 million a month, in addition to the amount spent so far, according to a new Pentagon estimate.
The deployment of National Guard troops hailing from states all across the country to Washington, D.C., is expected to cost taxpayers more than $1.4 billion in additional funds through 2029, an administration nominee told a Senate committee.
Trump first deployed around 800 National Guard troops in Washington in August 2025, an effort to tackle what he called a “crime emergency” in the city.
WASHINGTON — The deployment of National Guard troops hailing from all across the country to Washington, D.C. is expected to cost taxpayers more than $1.4 billion in additional funds through 2029. The estimate from Jules Hurst III, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the Pentagon’s comptroller, ca…
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