After a year of marching along D.C.’s streets, the National Guard deployment is expected to cost another $1.4 billion through the end of President Donald Trump’s second term.

That figure comes from Senator Elizabeth Warren’s office as part of the confirmation process for Jules Hurst III, Trump’s pick for Pentagon comptroller. The cost is based on roughly 2,500 members being stationed in D.C. from October 2026 through January 2029. Trump first deployed the National Guard in D.C. in August 2025.

“The National Guard are not pawns and taxpayer dollars are not a piggy bank for Trump’s political stunts,” Warren said in a statement.

Meanwhile, violent crime rates have risen by 3%, and property crimes such as burglary and car theft have dropped by a combined 23%. Homicide rates continued to fall, a trend that started in 2023 before the deployment, according to data from D.C.’s local police department.

A January 2026 report from the Congressional Budget Office estimated the government had spent $223 million on the Washington, D.C guard deployment through 2025.

The National Guard has faced violence while in town. The Justice Department has charged Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, an Afghan National, with killing U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and severely injuring U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24 at the time, stemming from a shooting blocks away from the White House in late November 2025. The department has stated that Lakanwal had travelled from Washington state.

The Washington Post reported that Brig. Gen. Leland Blanchard II said that service members had responded to about 800 medical emergencies and administered about 325 doses of Narcan.

USA TODAY sought to verify those numbers with the D.C. National Guard but received a bounceback from their media email that read, “the recipient’s mailbox is full and can’t accept messages now.” Calls to the media line were not immediately returned.

The National Guard is a commonly felt presence in Washington. In uniform and armed, they walk past parents pushing strollers or people walking dogs in federally owned parks, like Meridian Hill Park. They frequent metro stops, meander through residential neighborhoods and are often spotted emerging from vans throughout the city.

Some residents have bristled at the National Guard’s presence in town. Residents sometimes shout at service members and signs imploring the National Guard to “go home” are a common sight on the city sidewalks and walls.