Carlos Williams (@smartsapper86.bsky.social)

$496 MILLION of your taxpayer dollars. That’s what the Trump Administration spent deploying troops INSIDE the United States. Nearly half a billion dollars — not for disaster relief, not for health care, not to lower costs — but for legally questionable political deployments.

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National Guard deployments cost taxpayers almost half a billion dollars A new estimate from Congress’s nonpartisan bookkeeper tallied up last year’s expenses. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/28/national-guard-deployments-cost/