The deployment of 200 Oregon National Guard troops to Portland will cost the federal government at least $3.8 million, according to a state official. 

“200 service members for 80 days is roughly $3.8 million. Just in pay and allowances, and then there are other logistics costs, that we are still working through, support agreements, for what those costs look like. Again, this is all federally funded,” Russell Gibson, the Oregon Military Department’s director for government and legislative affairs, said during a Tuesday appearance before Oregon state lawmakers. 

“Pay and allowance depends on their rank and pay grade … their ZIP code and their housing allowance, etc. But we’ve done this estimate before. So when we look at 200 service members, for a total of 80 days, and that 80-day order encompasses a 60-day mission but allows us some time on the front end to get them trained, and because they’ll accrue leave, it’ll require time on the back end for us to do demobilization for them to utilize their leave on the back end,” Gibson said during his testimony before a subcommittee. 

The Defense Department (DOD) authorized 200 members of Oregon’s National Guard to be deployed to Portland, days after President Trump said he would send troops to protect the Rose City and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building there. 

The deployment has been met with pushback from some residents and was criticized by some state leaders and Democrats on Capitol Hill. Beaver State officials sued the Trump administration Sunday, looking to block the deployment of troops to Portland. 

Portland became another major U.S. city — along with Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles — to have National Guard members deployed to its streets in recent months. 

Gibson also told state lawmakers Tuesday that the National Guard troops are not from the Portland area. 

“If they are law enforcement in Portland or Multnomah County, we’re not putting them on this deployment because that takes them away from the actual activity that they’re supposed to be doing in those communities anyway,” he said, adding that “we have some other security force individuals that we’re not taking away from there.”