Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom applauded a Trump administration decision to cut the number of federalized California National Guard troops deployed to the Los Angeles area by half, a reduction from 4,

This comes after the Trump administration last week reduced the troops' size by half to 2,000 National Guard members.

Bass called the deployment of the National Guard a "chaotic escalation" of the situation, in a June 8 post to X.