Do you know how much does Donald Trump's military deployment cost?

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES – The deployment of US military personnel on the border with Mexico, launched by US President Donald Trump last April, could cost him dearly to the government more than 200 million dollars at the end of this year, according to an analysis released today by the Washington Post.

Trump assured this week that he could elevate 15,000 the number of military deployed, a contingent equivalent to what it has in Afghanistan, to treat the two caravans with thousands of Central American migrants crossing Mexico to US territory, reported portal Vanguardia.

The figure is relatively small compared to Pentagon's annual budget$ 716 billion, but it can unbalance the accounts at a time when the White House wants the Defense Department to cut spending by $ 33,000 for next year.

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The United States has already deployed at the border to 2100 Reservists of the National Guard and he has already spent $ 103 million to maintain them since the beginning of his mission from last April to late September, according to the Pentagon.

Keeping these reservists there until September 2019, already authorized by the Department of Defense, will cost some $ 308 million, according to the agency's forecasts.

This week, the Trump government announced the deployment of 5,200 soldiers at the borderthat in this case they are active members of the armed forces and not reservists, which reduces the costs for the state coffers because they do not require additional payments.

If the active military contingent increased to 8,000, the cost of keeping them until mid-December of this year would be $ 50 million, while it was $ 15,000, the bill went to $ 10,000. would rise to up to 110 millionaccording to the calculations of the Independent Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

Added to more than 150 million that would cost having at the border the National Guard reservists until the end of the year, the total bill would exceed 200 million.

However, Trump outlined his plans in an electoral context ahead of next Tuesday's legislative elections. It is not certain that he will continue this military escalation at the border once the appointment with the polling stations.

AT migrant caravans, which cross Mexico on foot, still have several weeks to reach the southern border of the United States, according to most estimates.