{"id":39255,"date":"2026-01-01T00:17:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/trump-backs-away-from-deploying-national-guard-in-los-angeles-chicago-and-portland\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:17:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:17:39","slug":"trump-backs-away-from-deploying-national-guard-in-los-angeles-chicago-and-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/trump-backs-away-from-deploying-national-guard-in-los-angeles-chicago-and-portland\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump backs away from deploying national guard in Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decision comes after DoJ stopped contesting California court\u2019s ruling to return control of guard to state\u2019s governor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> has staged a sudden climbdown from his attempts to impose federal troops in law enforcement roles on Democratic-run cities, announcing on Wednesday that he was ending attempted deployments from Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland.<\/p>\n<p>The unexpected shift came after justice department lawyers said they were no longer contesting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a> court\u2019s ruling that returned the national guard troops to the authority of Gavin Newsom, the state\u2019s governor. It also followed a rare rebuke from the US supreme court, which blocked the White House\u2019s efforts to deploy national guards in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/illinois\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Illinois<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/31\/trump-national-guard-deployment-stopped\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decision comes after DoJ stopped contesting California court\u2019s ruling to return control of guard to state\u2019s governor Donald Trump has staged a sudden climbdown from his attempts to impose federal troops in law enforcement roles on Democratic-run cities, announcing on Wednesday that he was ending attempted deployments from Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland. The unexpected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 11:19:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}