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13 October
5:45 pm

you have the National Guard at the cost of a billion dollars a year to the taxpayers because you fired corrections officers

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Bruce Blakeman, at New York Governor General Election Debate (Spectrum News)

5:45 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific dollar figure ($1 billion/year) for National Guard deployment in prisons and causal claim about fired corrections officers; both are verifiable
What we foundThe National Guard deployment in New York prisons did arise after corrections officers were fired following the 2025 strike, and cumulative spending has surpassed $1 billion, but the claim that it costs 'a billion dollars a year' is an overstatement of the annualized current rate, which multiple sources place closer to $50–100 million per month.
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