US EditionFederal troop deployments to US cities cost taxpayers $496M and counting
The Congressional Budget Office estimates nearly $500 million spent on National Guard and Marine deployments to six cities in 2025, with ongoing monthly costs near $100 million.
- The Congressional Budget Office reported on Jan. 28, 2026 that deployments cost taxpayers roughly $496 million through the end of December 2025.
- Deploying troops to select cities, the White House said they were sent to protect federal personnel, curb violence, and support deportations since June.
- CBO calculated continuing deployments would cost about $93 million per month, with each additional 1,000-troop unit adding $18 million to $21 million monthly, based on military pay, benefits, lodging, food, and transportation.
- Courts and local leaders have challenged deployments, halting some operations, while National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., are expected to remain deployed throughout 2026; the CBO excluded the New Orleans deployment .
- Amid uncertainty, the Congressional Budget Office warned future costs are 'highly uncertain,' citing ongoing fiscal burdens and operational irregularities like keeping 20 National Guard personnel in Texas.
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Trump's deployment of National Guard members to Chicago cost taxpayers $21 million, congressional report says
President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard members to Illinois last year cost taxpayers $21 million, despite the troops being confined to bases amid federal court battles. That's according to a Congressional Budget Office report requested by Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin, as well as nine of their Senate colleagues. Since June 2025, domestic deployments of National Guard personnel or active-duty Marine Corps members to six U.S.…
Duckworth, Durbin, React To Cost Estimates Of Troop Deployments In U.S. Cities
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) reacted to today’s Congressional Budget Office Report on cost estimates for troop deployments to U.S. cities. CBO estimated, that for the last six months of 2025, the domestic deployments cost nearly $496 million—including $21 million for the deployment in Illinois, where troops spent months confined to bases after federal…
The critical deployment of military assets in the streets of major American cities by Donald Trump cost nearly $500 million last year, according to an estimate by a congressional body published on Wednesday.
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