Trump's Troops at Mexico Border Could Cost $10 Million a Day

[DonViejo]

November 2, 2018
Roxana Tiron & Robert Levinson

Former defense chief slams using soldiers as `political pawns’

Daily price tag varies based on housing, food, operations

President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy about 7,000 active-duty troops to the border with Mexico could cost between $3 million to $5 million a day at a minimum, and that could double if the number reaches 15,000.

The bill can vary, and can potentially go up, depending on per-diem costs afforded to military personnel on travel, operational expenses such as the amount of fuel used, medical supplies distributed and flight hours logged on helicopters. The personnel costs, which are the priciest, are already funded as part of the regular fiscal 2019 Pentagon budget.

While the Pentagon has yet to provide a tally, an examination of Congressional Budget Office data and Pentagon travel cost information suggests Trump’s plan to dispatch 15,000 troops could run to at least $6.1 million to $10.2 million a day in personnel costs, Bloomberg Government estimates.

Trump has announced the deployment of thousands of troops to the U.S. border just days before the midterm elections on Nov. 6 in response to caravans of Central American migrants still a thousand miles away. The move has inflamed some prominent Democrats in Congress who have raised alarms that it could come at a high cost both financially and in terms of military readiness.

The administration has failed to “provide a full accounting of the financial costs of this deployment as well as the impacts it will have on any ongoing military missions,” Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement.

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https://about.bgov.com/blog/trumps-troops-mexico-border-10-million/

[mucifer]

1. It's gotta be way more than that

[Wintryjade]

2. I figure military especially, and Trump will forget about this in a day or two.

Like Kelly just ignores Trump when he fires him.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

3. Cost is no issue

when you're spending other peoples money. Like his dads. GD it...cannot WAIT to hear the Dems remind them of all of this when the next Congress is on the floor during debate. Fiscal conservatives MY GD ASS.

[duforsure]

4. Trump and the gop recklessly spending

Will cause a steep drop soon in the stock market. Its coming and from their policies they've passed for the wealthy and corporations, not the rest of us. Watch when it tanks badly trump and the gop will blame their getting destroyed this election and the Democrats winning is the cause of the drop that's coming. Trump flat has shown how incompetent with money , he really is. The gop let him do it too, and why they are losing their jobs in Congress at record rates now , and into the future from it.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Do you think GOP cares? Less money for SS and Medicare.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. And that is just a ball park number.

The last time Troops were sent,the lost equipment that was stolen by the Militia Puss Guts exceeded that according to the Border Patrol people.

[PandoraAwakened]

7. And according to a Pentagon slideshow leaked to Newsweek & reported on by Maddow yesterday

"Migrant Caravan: Border Troops Preparing for Threat of Armed, Unregulated Militias, Leaked Documents Show"

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-migrant-caravan-border-troops-1196855


In other words, the only plans in the works from the Pentagon are those relative to the asshole white nationalists camping out near the border drooling over the chance to shoot someone brown with equipment they've stolen from the National Guard.

Additionally, because I've done a lot of recent research on the rise of the white supremacists, I'm aware there is a 'call-to-arms' by the beer-guzzling 'Minutemen Militia' to bring in 1,000 of these dipshits to the Arizona border alone.

Nothing but trouble is going to come of this---and just in time for Christmas.



From the desk of: The American M.O.B. (Majority Opinion Blowback)

"My American M.O.B. over the GOP's Russian Mob any day, any time...Let's roll!"

[spanone]

8. are they on their way?

[maxrandb]

9. Not to mention the good chance some get killed

Let's put our "diverse" troops between women and children that are 30 days minimum away, and armed to the teeth MAGAt militia... it's a recipe for a fucking tragedy.

Is Mattis going to make sure we only send troops of Aryan decent???

What a fucking disaster.