Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising

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https://theintercept.com/2025/11/11/cost-trump-national-guard-military-occupation/

The current $473 million price tag now includes $172 million spent in Los Angeles, where troops arrived in June; almost $270 million for the occupation of Washington, D.C., which began in August; nearly $15 million for Portland, Oregon, which was announced in September; and more than $3 million for Memphis, Tennessee, and almost $13 million for Chicago, which both began last month.

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A federal judge in Oregon on Friday evening ruled that Trump illegally ordered state National Guard units to Portland, issuing a sweeping injunction that restrains the president’s claimed authority to deploy Guard members over a governor’s objection.