President Donald Trump announced he is stepping back, at least temporarily, from his plan to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland after a series of legal challenges stalled the move.
In a social media post on Wednesday, Trump said he was pulling back the troops “for now,” adding that the administration could revive the effort if crime rises again. “We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again. Only a question of time!” he wrote.
Troops had already withdrawn from Los Angeles, where they were deployed earlier in the year as part of a broader crackdown on crime and immigration. Forces were also sent to Chicago and Portland, but they never took to the streets as lawsuits mounted.
The plan faced resistance at nearly every level. In December, the Supreme Court declined to allow the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area, marking a rare setback for the administration. The decision was not final but signaled significant judicial skepticism.
In Washington, the District of Columbia attorney general filed suit to block the deployment of more than 2,000 guardsmen. In Oregon, a federal judge issued a permanent ruling preventing National Guard troops from being deployed there.
California’s National Guard troops had already been ordered off the streets of Los Angeles by mid December following a court decision. Although an appeals court temporarily paused part of that ruling, the administration told the court on Tuesday that it would no longer seek to delay the requirement that control of the Guard return to Governor Gavin Newsom.
That decision clears the way for California’s National Guard to fully revert to state authority after being federalized in June.
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