Deploying National Guard troops to Chicago could cost taxpayers nearly $1.6 million per day, according to a nonpartisan federal budget research organization.

The estimate is based on 3,000 troops potentially being sent to Chicago, though no official number has been made public.

The National Priorities Project, a research group that’s part of the progressive nonprofit Institute for Policy Studies, used a figure of $530 per Guard member per day, which was the estimated cost in 2020 when National Guard members were deployed to Washington, D.C., during protests following the death of George Floyd.

The ultimate price tag for a Chicago deployment would be affected by factors such as the pay scale of individual National Guard members and whether the government provides them with housing, said

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