Nearly $500 MILLION spent.

[cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com]

Nearly $500 MILLION spent.

Federalized National Guard troops were deployed to Chicago, L.A., Portland, etc. under Title 10 — costing taxpayers $496+ million, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

They couldn’t make arrests.
They couldn’t conduct searches.
They mostly guarded buildings.

A retired two-star general called the mission “100 percent ineffective.”

Half a billion dollars — for optics.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/02/11/national-guard-los-angeles-chicago-portland/ #press