National Guard deployment to DC represents militarization of domestic governance and concentration of state force, raising concerns about authoritarian response to political dissent and normalization of military presence in civilian spaces.
The figure offers a glimpse of how much taxpayer money will be spent on a deployment that has been widely criticised.
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