Overview
- The Senate Homeland Security Committee’s Democratic staff estimates the deployment has already cost more than $330 million and is on pace to exceed about $602 million over a year, or roughly $1.65 million per day.
- Roughly 2,500 to 2,674 National Guard members from D.C. and several states continue operating largely in central Washington.
- The report finds no demonstrable crime reduction tied to the mission, noting activities such as 44 overdose reversals, crowd control and beautification work.
- Democratic overseers say the Pentagon did not answer written inquiries, leading staff to conduct on-site visits, and Guard leaders voiced concerns about readiness and the loss of some MPD officers to Guard duty.
- A federal judge ordered the deployment ended in November, an appeals court later allowed it to continue, and two Guard members were shot near the White House in November, one fatally.