The Trump administration’s controversial deployments of National Guard troops to six American cities since June cost about $496 million in 2025, and continuing the existing deployments as is would cost about $93 million per month, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.
And for each additional Guard unit that is activated in the future, costs will increase by $18 million to $21 million per 1,000 soldiers, according to a CBO letter released Wednesday.
The estimates are the first concrete tally of the costs of the deployments that have sent troops to Los Angeles, Memphis, Portland, Chicago, New Orleans and Washington, and have inflamed critics, activists and watchdog groups.
