The military forces deploying in Washington, D.C. — whose mission includes not only “community safety patrols” but assisting in “traffic control” and “area beautification” — could cost upward of $1 million per day, with the possible price tag climbing into the hundreds of millions for the open-ended occupation, according to expert analysis.

Washington is now ground zero in President Donald Trump’s push to turn America into a full-fledged police state .

The power grab in the District of Columbia — which thus far has involved seizing control of D.C.’s police force, deploying National Guard troops, and flooding the streets with federal officers — follows deployments of federal troops from coast to coast, surges of masked federal agents around the United States, and consistent ty

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