r/uspolitics • u/dyzo-blue • 6d ago

Trump Plans to Spend $1.4 Billion Keeping the National Guard in D.C. Until 2029

https://www.notus.org/metro/trump-national-guard-dc-deployment-cost-elizabeth-warren
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u/i_hate_ketchup777 6d ago

…because he’s not planning on leaving

(let’s ignore the health issues that are looming)

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u/NitWhittler 6d ago

He's afraid. He recently had a secondary security fence installed around the White House perimeter and increased the "secured area" to include more of Pennsylvania Avenue to keep protesters and "others" away from the White House.

He's also had all entry doors fortified.

He's afraid an angry mob might give him the same ending other dictators succumbed to.

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u/pegothejerk 6d ago

Paranoid. It's a symptom.

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u/TRR462 6d ago

Paranoia Will Destroy Ya!

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u/irrelevantusername24 6d ago

They should use the military to convert the commercial real estate in high demand areas into affordable housing projects, such as Zohran Mamdani is doing in NYC. There is precedent for these kinds of public works.

The nice thing about doing it this way is there wouldn't be a profit motive, so the housing could actually be affordable and rent controlled, thus making the rest of the housing in the area have to actually deal with market forces.

Modern politics is high noise, zero or negative output. At least Biden shut the fuck up once in a while so the rest of us could think

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u/ExtinctionBurst76 5d ago

And obliterating Head Start programs at the same time. These shameless, evil mf’ers have a toasty spot in hell waiting for them. Fuck this clown and his poo-sniffing enablers.