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National Guard Protection of Capitol to Cost $483 Million Through March: Pentagon
The Epoch Times ^ | February 9, 2021 | Tom Ozimek

Posted on 02/09/2021 7:14:57 PM PST by Art-Diver

Pentagon Spokesman John Kirby said Monday that the estimated cost for National Guard protection of the U.S. Capitol complex through March 15 will cost taxpayers a total of $483 million.

Kirby said at a Department of Defense (DoD) press briefing that the breakdown of the costs is $284 million to cover personnel and $199 million to cover operations.

Tens of thousands of National Guard troops deployed to Washington to assist with security in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. Around 5,000 troops are expected to remain in the city until March 15 as former President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial poses security concerns, Politico reported, though it is unclear if there is any specific threat.

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1 posted on 02/09/2021 7:14:57 PM PST by Art-Diver
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Praetorian Guards are expensive.......


2 posted on 02/09/2021 7:17:25 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To protect Nancy Pelosi’s chair from someone carrying it and sitting in it again?

What exactly were the other actual problems since that one day?

I want my tax money back.


3 posted on 02/09/2021 7:18:01 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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HALF a BILLION BUCKS.

What an incredible waste...all for stirring up fear in the sheeple and for Piglosi to poke a stick in Trump’s eye.


4 posted on 02/09/2021 7:18:11 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Life is short, and work long, opportunity fleeting, experiments dangerous, and judgment hard)
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To: Art-Diver

Biden’s Elite Guard.


5 posted on 02/09/2021 7:21:34 PM PST by Huskrrrr (Pronouns? I need no stinkin pronouns.)
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To: Art-Diver

It makes me wonder what they have up their sleeves. Do they intend to arrest Trump?


6 posted on 02/09/2021 7:23:03 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Pathetic Pierre Delecto, the Pestiferous Potentate of Enchanted Chones.)
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7 posted on 02/09/2021 7:24:26 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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8 posted on 02/09/2021 7:27:41 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tagline Under Review)
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I think they’re cutting the blimps on the border to help
pay for it. $50 million should do nicely. LOL

I don’t know how much the blimp program was costing, but I
doubt it was $500 million.

Maybe it was.


9 posted on 02/09/2021 7:28:19 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

LOL

Notice that the guy who sat in Pelosi’s chair had a sudden urge to go out and get Botox injections in his forehead? Little known side fact.


10 posted on 02/09/2021 7:30:00 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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Just think of it ....
All the money spent guarding a senile guy and a kneepad lawyer, all the while screaming about Russia, when CHINA is making all sorts of noise, oncluding videos on social media, how big, bad, powerful, and itching for a fight.


11 posted on 02/09/2021 7:40:02 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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..... What if the National Guard and the Fence are unable to Flatten the Curve of the threat of White Privileged Supremacists against the Capitol by the end of March ...... They just might have to extend the use of the National Guard indefinitely until the Crisis of White Privileged Supremacy has been mitigated and is totally under control ......


12 posted on 02/09/2021 7:45:32 PM PST by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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Half a billion dollars.

Half a billion dollars.


13 posted on 02/09/2021 7:58:07 PM PST by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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To: Art-Diver
expensive prop rentals to set the stage for their phoney baloney "Insurrection Show"

the REAL insurrection is over now, it was performed by the globalists using Biden as their creepy puppet.

Like an episode of Tales From the Crypt

14 posted on 02/09/2021 8:04:29 PM PST by KTM rider (Expatriated at home in a country taken over by a coup )
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To: frank ballenger

Are you serious? LOL! He must have caught her mental disease.


15 posted on 02/09/2021 8:07:19 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: Art-Diver

Installing an illegal government doesn’t come cheap.


16 posted on 02/09/2021 8:10:24 PM PST by Salvavida
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Gotta “protect” the Satanic Deep State Cabal and its inherently evil shadow government.

If only our Heavenly Father would smite that vile town with all of His Righteous fury and wrath, the taxpayers would be spared a lot of senseless waste of their hard-earned money.

Come on, Heavenly Father! It’s win-win!

The world is rid of an inherently evil force, and we peasants are spared from the waste of our finances.


17 posted on 02/09/2021 8:22:05 PM PST by Prole
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I wonder if anyone has posted a sign on that fence yet saying, “Please DO NOT FEED the Congresscritters!”


18 posted on 02/09/2021 8:27:49 PM PST by _longranger81 (God help us, Every One. )
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How many pitchforks would that buy?


19 posted on 02/09/2021 8:38:54 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (No audit. No peace.)
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To: rlmorel

Good thing it’s not real money,........


20 posted on 02/09/2021 9:04:44 PM PST by Oil Object Insp
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