President Donald Trump’s military occupations of U.S. cities have cost nearly half a billion dollars, according to an expert estimate provided exclusively to The Intercept.

The current $473 million price tag now includes $172 million spent in Los Angeles, where troops arrived in June ; almost $270 million for the occupation of Washington, D.C. , which began in August; nearly $15 million for Portland , Oregon, which was announced in September; and more than $3 million for Memphis, Tennessee, and almost $13 million for Chicago, which both began last month.

The National Priorities Project, a nonpartisan research group, tallied these totals from open-source information and costs-per-day estimates supplied to The Intercept by the office of Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.

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