Trump removes National Guard from some US cities
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump says he is withdrawing the National Guard from the Democrat-led cities of Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland after the Supreme Court blocked the deployment of troops for policing duties. But the president said federal forces would "come back" if crime rates go up.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.4 | I'm Rachel Wright, and in the early hours of Thursday, the 1st of January, these are our main stories. |
| 0:17.5 | Donald Trump will pull National Guard troops out of three U.S. cities after a Supreme |
| 0:22.3 | Court ruling. And in a New Year's address, President Zelensky says Ukraine will not sign a weak |
| 0:28.2 | peace agreement with Russia. Also in this podcast, if every Syrian people will not take this risk, who will build our country? |
| 0:41.4 | We speak to a Syrian refugee who's ready to move home. |
| 0:49.2 | In the final hours of 2025, Donald Trump announced he was withdrawing federal troops from three |
| 0:55.8 | U.S. cities, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Portland. |
| 0:59.7 | Over the course of the year, the president has deployed the National Guard to several Democrat-run cities. |
| 1:05.5 | He claimed they were needed to crack down on rampant crime and help with immigration enforcement. |
| 1:11.7 | I saw today on one of your networks, not a friendly network. |
| 1:16.1 | They interviewed about 12 people. |
| 1:19.0 | Most of them were African American, who were black. |
| 1:22.9 | And they were saying, please, please, please let the president send it. These were people from Chicago. |
| 1:29.7 | Please, we need help. We need help. We can't walk outside. We're petrified. |
| 1:34.3 | But Democrats criticized the move as an unnecessary and unconstitutional abuse of power. |
| 1:40.5 | And several legal challenges were filed to block the deployments. |
| 1:44.7 | Last week, the US Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal to send troops to Chicago, |
| 1:49.9 | citing a long-standing law against using the military as a domestic police force. |
| 1:55.2 | And now President Trump has announced they'll be withdrawing, |
| 1:58.4 | claiming that crime rates in the three cities have been reduced, |
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