Trump Announces National Guard Withdrawal From Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Citing Big Crime Reductions
President Donald Trump announced in a social media post on December 31 that the United States is removing the National Guard from Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles, California; and Portland, Oregon. He wrote that crime in the three cities was greatly reduced by the presence of these great Patriots, that he had decided to remove them anyway, and that the federal government's intervention alone had saved the cities from being lost.
Trump also wrote that the federal forces will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again, calling that only a question of time. Guard deployments in Washington, D.C., New Orleans and Memphis, Tennessee, were not part of this withdrawal and will continue.
The announcement came after the Supreme Court on December 23 refused to allow the administration to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area, leaving in place a lower court order blocking the federalization and deployment of the Guard in Illinois. The deployments in Chicago and Portland had likewise been blocked by courts, and Guard members had left California earlier this month. The same day as Trump's announcement, the Ninth Circuit appeals court lifted its stay, returning control of the California National Guard to Governor Gavin Newsom.
Source: The White House
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Photo: 图：2025年6月，被联邦征召的加州国民警卫队人员在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶执勤（资料照片）。美国北方司令部 摄，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Federally activated California National Guard members on duty in Los Angeles, California, in June 2025 (file photo). Photo by U.S. Northern Command, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
