Trump’s troop deployment in US cities cost almost $500m in 2025

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that ongoing operations will cost $93m a month.Published On 29 Jan 2026United States President Donald Trump’s deployment of troops in major US cities in 2025 cost nearly $500m, according to the latest estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).Trump last year activated more than 10,000 National Guard soldiers and active-duty marines and sent them to Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Memphis, Portland, Chicago and New Orleans in what the president claimed was an effort to deter crime and protect federal immigration enforcement.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Mourinho’s Benfica drag Real Madrid with them to Champions League playoffslist 2 of 4Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,435list 3 of 4US agents involved in Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis placed on leavelist 4 of 4Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok banend of list“Since June 2025, the Administration has deployed National Guard personnel or active-duty Marine Corps personnel to six US cities … [and] cost a total of approximately $496 million through the end of December 2025,” CBO director Phillip Swagel wrote in the report released on Wednesday.The actual number of troops patrolling US streets fluctuated throughout 2025 due to legal challenges to Trump’s orders from city and state officials, and just over 5,000 remained activated by the end of December.The CBO estimated that an ongoing deployment at that size will cost $93m a month in 2026.Operations in Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland have all been suspended since the end of December, but they continue in Washington, DC, Memphis and New Orleans.If Trump sends troops elsewhere, the CBO estimates that deploying 1,000 National Guards to an average US city in 2026 will cost between $18m and $21m a month in 2026, depending on the cost of living.“The costs of those or other deployments in the future are highly uncertain, mainly because the scale, length, and location of such deployments are difficult to predict accurately,” the report said.