Friend,
Donald Trump’s military occupation of U.S. cities has already cost the American public $473 billion, according to an expert estimate provided exclusively to The Intercept. The expenditures come as Trump and Republicans have cut more than $1 trillion from domestic services, instead funneling tax dollars toward tax cuts for the rich and Trump’s crackdown on dissent.
The external estimates are jaw-dropping, and we need the Congressional Budget Office to get to the truth. Twelve Democratic senators, including Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Duckworth, recently sent a letter to the CBO demanding an independent assessment of the projected expense of deploying U.S. troops in our communities.
As Sen. Duckworth put it, “If Donald Trump is burning through hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on his authoritarian campaign of intimidation, the American people deserve to know about it.”
Through mid-November, the estimated cost per city for Trump’s National Guard deployment is:
$270 million – Washington, DC
$172 million – Los Angeles, CA
$15 million – Portland, OR
$13 million – Chicago, IL
$3 million – Memphis, TN
Now Trump is threatening a surge of troops to additional cities, including New Orleans, Baltimore, New York City, Oakland, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Seattle.
The American public must know exactly how much money is being spent on activation, deployment, compensation, and sustainment for National Guard troops to storm our cities and violate our rights.
Send a message to the Congressional Budget Office now urging an independent assessment of the costs of these sustained military deployments in our communities.
