Trump's border deployments could cost $200 million by year-end

[dalton99a]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trumps-border-deployments-could-cost-200-million-by-year-end/2018/11/02/9798d7b6-deeb-11e8-aa33-53bad9a881e8_story.html

Trump’s border deployments could cost $200 million by year-end
By Paul Sonne
November 3 at 7:00 AM

The total price of President Trump’s military deployment to the border, including the cost of National Guard forces that have been there since April, could climb well above $200 million by the end of 2018 and grow significantly if the deployments continue into next year, according to analyst estimates and Pentagon figures.

The deployment of as many as 15,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border — potentially equal in size to the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan — occurs as the budgetary largesse the military has enjoyed since Trump took office looks set to come to an end.

Although the costs of the border deployments will be a tiny slice of a $716 billion annual defense budget, they arrive as the Trump administration is calling on the Pentagon to cut unnecessary expenditures. The White House recently ordered the Pentagon to slash next year’s budget for the military by about $33 billion in response to the largest increase in the federal deficit in six years.

Veterans and Democratic lawmakers have complained that Trump is wasting military dollars in a politically motivated stunt ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, at a time when the Pentagon budget is under pressure.

“Instead of working in a bipartisan manner to make comprehensive, common-sense, and humane reforms to our immigration system, the President continues to turn to politically-motivated fear mongering and uses [Department of Defense] resources and personnel as a means to drive his troubling anti-immigration agenda,” more than 100 House Democrats wrote in a letter to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Nov. 1.

[Turbineguy]

1. Maybe he should build a hotel

to the soldiers to stay in.

What's da vig on dat?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Oh come on

You know Trump is the king of debt

[malaise]

3. He does not give a flying fuck

It's not his money so he can orchestrate this political stunt.
Lock up this treasonous scumbag.

[meow2u3]

4. Send HIM the bill!

Make him fork over the cost out of his own pockets!!

[MiniMe]

5. Except the Defense Department does not want to deploy troops.