National Guard DC deployment to cost $1.4bn through 2029

The deployment has militarized Washington, DC streets with armed Guard troops conducting patrols and arrest operations, affecting residents' daily life and sense of autonomy.

In the long history of democracies wrestling with the boundary between security and liberty, Washington, DC now finds itself the site of a sustained military presence that will cost American taxpayers an estimated $1.4 billion through January 2029. Roughly 2,500 National Guard troops, deployed under a presidential emergency order framed as a crime-fighting measure, have become a fixture on the streets of the nation's capital — a city whose unique constitutional status places it outside the legal protections that would constrain such deployments elsewhere. The debate this spending has ignited i

National Guard DC deployment to cost $1.4bn through 2029

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