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'Shocking': Veterans sound the alarm on 'staggering sum' spent on Trump crackdown
Two Billion Dollars to Normalize the UnthinkableThe bill is the pointA veterans group is warning that the Trump administration has already spent more than $700 million on the National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C., with another $1.43 billion expected. That is the narrow fact pattern here: troops in the capital, a ballooning public bill, and a veterans organization saying the operation is not just expensive but corrosive.Trump made the choiceThe center of power is not obscure. The White House ordered the deployment. The Pentagon is carrying it out. Congress is paying for it. And the…
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