Domestic Deployments Cost US Nearly $500M in 2025, CBO Finds
TL;DR
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard and active-duty troops to multiple U.S. cities in 2025 cost about $496 million through December, with ongoing costs around $93 million per month if levels stay the same; the Los Angeles deployment largely ended but 100 guards remained, and the D.C. deployment could run about $55 million per month at roughly 2,950 personnel, while future costs remain highly uncertain due to legal challenges and scale.
- Troop deployments to U.S. cities cost nearly half a billion dollars in 2025 CBS News
- The 2025 tab for the National Guard deployment in D.C. is in Axios
- Trump’s National Guard deployments have cost taxpayers nearly $500 million CNN
- Estimating the Costs of Troop Deployments to U.S. Cities Congressional Budget Office (.gov)
- What Trump’s Deployment of Federal Troops to U.S. Cities Has Cost Taxpayers Time Magazine
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