Trump’s decision to deploy military assets for policing duty has been an expensive boondoggle. Last month, Taxpayers for Common Sense noted that Pentagon estimates of the cost of just the National Guard and U.S. Marine deployment to Los Angeles for 60 days would reach at least $134 million. Factor in the deployments to D.C., Portland, Chicago, and Memphis, and the strategy looks on track to cost American taxpayers several hundred million dollars more.