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Trump has turned the National Guard into mall cops. Cost? $1 million a day. (www.motherjones.com)

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[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 14 points 18 hours ago

$1M/day...

Okay, assuming $50k/yr cost per person, that's something like $135/day for each "cop". That's like 7000 people if salary was the only thing.

Since I don't think there are even 1000 of them deployed in DC, then there's a lot of overhead going somewhere else. Uniforms, admin, whatever. Likely some good old fashioned corruption and grift.

Also, I'm kind of surprised that number is that low.