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National Guard deployments cost taxpayers almost half a billion dollars
Washington comPost ^ | By Mariana Alfaro

Posted on 01/29/2026 5:11:05 AM PST by MrRelevant

“President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard and active-duty Marine personnel to U.S. cities cost approximately $496 million between June and December last year, according to an estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; budget; chargeittothedems; chargeittotimwalz; deployment; illegaltruth; nationalguard
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To: MrRelevant

This is one dim bimbo. Obviously she isn’t going to tell us the rest of the story. Her boy, Somali Walz activated the Minniesomali NG to take “hot coffee”, donuts and tampons to the fascist azhos destroying downtown Minniedishu. She needs to put the bad news about the cost on her boy, Walz’s ass too.


21 posted on 01/29/2026 5:35:32 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Cheech Frey and his sidekick, Timmy Chong have turned Minniesomalia into a Cheech & Chong movie.)
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To: MrRelevant

LOL

And they weren’t getting paid before?

LMAO


22 posted on 01/29/2026 5:40:30 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: MrRelevant

Lets compare that to Bidens Border Patrol / ICE cost to sit and watch for 4 years.
2020 $4 billion
2021 13 billion
2022 13.5 billion
2023 25 billion


23 posted on 01/29/2026 5:40:37 AM PST by Jolla
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To: MrRelevant
Half a billion... So, 1/18th of what the Somali fraudsters stole?

Yeah, I'm good with the half billion. In fact, I'd be in support of spending 18 times that just to kick all of the fraudsters and illegals out of the country.

24 posted on 01/29/2026 5:43:01 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: MrRelevant

Almost HALF a BILLION??? You could build a quarter of a mile of a turn-off lane at a DC highway intersection for that mile!!! What do they think, we’re just printing money???


25 posted on 01/29/2026 5:46:23 AM PST by dangus
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To: unixfox

“””ILLEGAL immigrants cost taxpayers 100 billion a year. Funny they never mention that.””””


You beat me to it. I was going to say that OTTO PEN BIDEN’s importation of millions of illegals cost $496 million for Trump to have the National Guard remove.


26 posted on 01/29/2026 5:48:59 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: MrRelevant

LOL. So the Washington Post finally cares about government spending????


27 posted on 01/29/2026 5:51:27 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: MrRelevant

Money well-spent. Not that WaPo could figure that out if course.


28 posted on 01/29/2026 5:55:52 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: MrRelevant

Money well-spent. Not that WaPo could figure that out if course.


29 posted on 01/29/2026 5:55:52 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: MrRelevant

Worth every penny.


30 posted on 01/29/2026 5:56:52 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn... )
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To: MrRelevant

The troops get paid weather they are deployed or not


31 posted on 01/29/2026 5:57:32 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: DoodleBob

Or around 500 homes in California. Preserving our Republic seems maybe kinda worth it...

Unfortunately, there are dark forces working to destroy us. Our only response can be to defeat them. The cost, in dollars, is arguably irrelevant.


32 posted on 01/29/2026 5:58:32 AM PST by drwoof
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To: MrRelevant

How much money was spent on Ukraine, WaPo?


33 posted on 01/29/2026 5:59:29 AM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: MrRelevant

Much cheaper than welfare for illegal aliens.


34 posted on 01/29/2026 6:03:56 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (No American Blood for censorious socialist islamophiles!)
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To: MrRelevant

Should bill the unruly cities.


35 posted on 01/29/2026 6:04:07 AM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: MrRelevant

Let’s spend 5 billion and really get the deportations up.


36 posted on 01/29/2026 6:04:55 AM PST by dynachrome (“They don’t kill you because you’re a Nazi; they call you a Nazi so they can kill you.”)
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To: MrRelevant

That’s not even 10% of what the Somalis stole just in Minnesota!


37 posted on 01/29/2026 6:06:02 AM PST by CodeToad
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To: dynachrome

The mission of Ice in the sanctuaries is to find, arrest and deport the criminal illegal aliens

At some point, the border patrol will begin executing it’s mission...... finding and deporting all the aliens who are in the country illegally.

When the Boder Patrol starts to work, that is when troops will be deployed

Because...... The sigtht fan


38 posted on 01/29/2026 6:11:00 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: MrRelevant

How much does running Somali Learning Centers cost?


39 posted on 01/29/2026 6:13:39 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: MrRelevant

I guess we could give it all to the Somalis ...


40 posted on 01/29/2026 6:14:55 AM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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