The National Guard is preparing for its fall training programs, but Donald Trump’s deployments are eating into its operational budget
The National Guard is feeling the cost of Donald Trump’s insistence on using National Guard troops to carry out his expansive immigration roundups and policing actions in Washington, D.C.
National Guard Major General Greg Porter, based in Wyoming, told the state’s lawmakers during a meeting of the Joint Transportation Highways & Military Affairs Committee that the costs of Trump’s National Guard deployments are still unknown, but they’re no doubt eating into the branch’s funds, according to WyoFile.
Porter said that the costs of prolonged deployments will eat into funding intended for things like training and operations.
There was a report that D.C. is costing $1 million a day. If he does 19 more cities, it’s $20M a day. I guess those DOGE cuts are gone.
im still 100% that doge actions raised costs and did not save squat.
The numbers agreed with you – severance ate a lot of the proposed savings, and the wrongful termination or constructive dismissal lawsuits haven’t even ramped up.
Add this in and The US will be sorely equipped to fend off the next coup.
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The doge cuts actually cost us money. And that’s not counting all the damage the lack of services will cause the economy by no longer existing
Those cuts were never about the money. They’ll just print more
Long term prediction:
Trump will be gone within a decade one way or another. He will have done incalculable damage to the US economy. We’ll be in “try anything” mode, and this is where MMT will have its first large scale test.
IMO Doge activities were a smoke screen for a massive data grab
I’d bet money you ain’t voicing an opinion. It’s a fact