D.C. Guard Deployment Extended Through 2029 at $1.4B Cost
WASHINGTON (AURN News) — One year after President Donald Trump launched a massive federal intervention in Washington, D.C., questions are growing over both the billion-dollar price tag and the future of local home rule. A new report indicates that thousands of National Guard troops and federal law enforcement officers will remain stationed in the District […] The post D.C. Guard Deployment Extended Through 2029 at $1.4B Cost appeared first on American Urban Radio Networks.
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WASHINGTON (AURN News) — One year after President Donald Trump launched a massive federal intervention in Washington, D.C., questions are growing over both the billion-dollar price tag and the future of local home rule.
A new report indicates that thousands of National Guard troops and federal law enforcement officers will remain stationed in the District through January 2029, aligning with the remainder of Trump’s term.
The contentious operation is now projected to cost taxpayers $1.4 billion. Federal officials defended the extended mission, crediting the deployment with supporting thousands of local arrests and helping drive down homicide rates.
Critics, including the ACLU and civil rights advocates, pushed back, arguing that violent crime was already declining before the forces arrived and characterizing the extended military presence as a direct assault on the self-government of a city with a large Black population and no voting representation in Congress.
Click play to listen to the report from AURN White House Correspondent Ebony McMorris. For more news, follow @E_N_McMorris & @aurnonline.
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