US EditionChicago National Guard Deployment Cost Taxpayers Paid $21 Million According to Congressional Budget Office Report
- Wednesday, the Congressional Budget Office estimated deployments have cost roughly $600 million, with an additional $93 million per month and potential to exceed $1.8 million.
- President Donald Trump ordered federal Guard mobilizations on June 7, 2025, deploying about 4,200 to Los Angeles amid immigration raids and activating 2,400 for the nation's capital later.
- CBO counted mobilized pay and benefits plus lodging, subsistence and transportation as primary cost components, with subsequent deployments including about 1,500 personnel to Memphis, about 400 to Portland, and about 575 to Chicago.
- Legal challenges have halted some city deployments, creating cost uncertainty, while Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. and other Senate Democrats requested a CBO analysis and criticized the missions as wasting taxpayer dollars and harming military readiness.
- CBO Director Phillip Swagel warned costs are uncertain due to duration, size and legal rulings, projecting $18-21 million per 1,000 soldiers with continued Washington deployment cost considerations.
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Chicago National Guard deployment cost taxpayers paid $21 million according to Congressional Budget Office report
It cost taxpayers $21 million for hundreds of National Guards troops to be deployed to Chicago and Illinois, where they were kept on base by legal challenges and never mobilized.
Chicago Sun Times
Usa newsPresident Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard members to Illinois last year cost taxpayers $21 million, even though the troops remained on the bases amid federal legal battles. This is according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) requested by Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin, along with nine of their Senate colleagues. The senators requested the costs of activating, deploying, and compensating Guard members, a…
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