Independent, UK - President Donald Trump’s decision to send the U.S. military into American cities to bolster local law enforcement has already cost taxpayers $473 million and counting, according to a report.
Data published by the non-partisan research group the National Priorities Project, and reported by The Intercept, based on open-source information, estimates that the occupation of Washington, D.C., which began in August, has been the most costly so far, at $270 million.
The D.C. deployment was called into question from the outset, given that the capital’s falling crime rate entirely contradicted Trump’s claims about crime in the city, and National Guard members were soon reported to have so little to do that they were reduced to clearing trash from the streets.
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