President Trump mobilized the D.C. National Guard under the guise of restoring security in the nation’s capital — despite D.C.’s crime rate being at a 30-year low. What began as a deployment of 800 D.C. National Guard troops has grown to encompass 2,091 as of this writing, as Republican governors send hundreds more. Previous reporting found that National Guard deployments cost the U.S. government $530 per Guard member, per day. That’s also true in the states whose GOP governors are voluntarily sending National Guard troops to the capital. The daily cost of operating safe shelter for all 30,000 would be less than one day of the D.C. occupation.