Observations

 1.  Since day one of the National Guard deployment into the 'Green Zone' of Washington DC....the cost factor is presently at $483-million (figure the hotel situation, meals, per diem paid to the Guardsmen, and getting from 'home' to the 'Green Zone').  Reported here.

Odds of this continuing past 1-billion?  I would actually and suggest it being near $2 billion before the entire episode is ended.

2.  I noticed that the CBO folks, who analyze projects for Congress....came to study the $15-an-hour wage deal.  In their judgement, approximately 1.4-million jobs would be cancelled out (gone).

If you figure the timing of this....if this were pushed toward the end of 2021....the 1.4-million folks would be ripe for discontent just as the mid-terms come around.  So I'd just go and suggest this wage deal is number one on Biden's 'to-do' list which will be halted or cancelled.

3.  The George Floyd murder trial will start in roughly a month.  It came up yesterday that the governor of Minnesota has ordered activation of the National Guard for this period of time (figure a minimum of two months).  

How many?  Unknown....the governor has been tight-lipped over how many are going to be 'deployed'. The police admit that they are somewhere between 10 and 20 percent undermanned presently for Minneapolis.  

Fear of riots?  There's a certain fear that all four policemen will be acquitted or it'll be a hung-jury.