SENATORS KIM AND PETERS REPORT FINDS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S NATIONAL GUARD DEPLOYMENT IN D.C. COSTS TAXPAYERS MORE THAN ONE MILLION DOLLARS A DAY, DOES LITTLE TO COMBAT VIOLENT CRIME

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- Sen. Andy Kim issued the following press release:

U.S. Senators Andy Kim (D-NJ) (https://www.kim.senate.gov/), Ranking Member of the HSGAC Subcommittee on Disaster Management, District of Columbia, and Census, and Gary Peters (D-MI), (http://peters.senate.gov/) Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a new report showing that President Trump's deployment of the U.S. National Guard in Washington, D.C. has cost taxpayers more than $330 million-nearly $1.65 million each day-in the seven months since activation while producing no measurable impact on public safety. According to the senators' report, this substantial cost to taxpayers will likely represent only a fraction of the...