How to compare a date in custom field with today’s date in custom WP_Query?

Try with this.

'meta_query' => array(
    array(
    'key' => 'event_date',
    'value' => date('Y-m-d'),
    'type' => 'date',
    'compare' => '<='

  )

hope is useful for it.

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