For now…
President Trump said he is abandoning (or pausing) the deployment of National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, Oregon. The troops are being withdrawn, and those missions will not continue in their current form for now.
Trump said he expects crime to rise again and warned that “we will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form,” adding that it is “only a question of time.”
The move follows a Supreme Court decision last week that dealt a setback to Trump’s efforts to deploy military forces in U.S. cities, with the justices blocking his request to send National Guard troops into the Chicago area to protect federal officials carrying out his immigration policies.
Before that, a federal judge permanently blocked the Portland deployment. A separate federal judge in California ordered the deployment to end there, returning control of the California National Guard to the state — a ruling the administration did not contest in court last week.
These deployments were part of Trump’s broader effort to deploy National Guard troops to Democrat-led cities to address crime and protect federal personnel during heightened immigration enforcement operations. They were controversial, criticized as federal overreach and as potentially violating laws that restrict military involvement in civilian policing.
Trump’s announcement frames the withdrawal as conditional — opening the door to future deployments if crime trends change, though current legal rulings significantly limit his ability to do so without overcoming court challenges.
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