According to a report released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), during the last year, President Donald Trump spent nearly $500 million sending the National Guard to several cities.

Starting In June, when the federal administration opted to reinforce security operations and detentions of undocumented immigrants in places like Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland, New Orleans, Memphis, Tennessee, Oregon, and Washington, DC, $496 million was allocated to the implementation of law enforcement over nearly seven months. The CBO report to Senator Jeff Merkley, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, indicates that this year the amount of money allocated to sending more National Guard troops to areas considered to have high crime or immigrant populations could increase depending on the complexity of the operations to be implemented. "The costs of these or other future deployments are highly uncertain, primarily because the scale, duration, and location of such deployments are difficult to anticipate precisely. This uncertainty is compounded by legal challenges, which have halted deployments in some cities, and by changes in the “Administration policies,” he mentions in one part of the 10-page document. All this information was requested by the Oregon senator so that the cost of respecting Donald Trump's approach and his anti-immigrant strategy would be known. “The American people deserve to know. how many hundreds of millions of hard-earned dollars have been and are being wasted on Trump's reckless and random deployment of National Guard troops in Portland and other cities across the country,"Merkley stated in a press release: The CBO projects that if National Guard members remain deployed in their assigned locations, it would cost the government $93 million per month for the operation. However, if the government chooses to deploy more federal agents to other cities, the additional monthly cost per 1,000 personnel would range between $18 and $21 million, depending on the cost of living in the chosen location.