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13 October
6:20 pm

the National Guard [is deployed in prisons] at the cost of a billion dollars a year to the tax payers

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

6:20 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific dollar figure ($1 billion/year) attributed to National Guard prison deployment is a concrete, verifiable financial claim that could be checked against budget records
What we foundThe National Guard deployment in New York prisons has cost over $1 billion in total since February 2025, but the cost has never been a flat $1 billion per year — it peaked at over $100 million/month and has since dropped to approximately $50 million/month.
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