WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth issued the following press release:
Combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) reacted to today's Congressional Budget Office Report on cost estimates for troop deployments to U.S. cities. CBO estimated, that for the last six months of 2025, the domestic deployments cost nearly $496 million-including $21 million for the deployment in Illinois, where troops spent months confined to bases after federal courts found the deployment illegal. Duckworth and Durbin, along with nine of their Senate colleagues, called for the CBO probe last October.
"Today's CBO report shows that Donald Trump's domestic deployments were even more costly and wa...