President Donald Trump is putting plans to deploy the National Guard to San Francisco on hold — at least for now.

President Trump said he made the decision after receiving calls from “friends” in the Bay Area who told him the city’s mayor is making “substantial progress” in addressing crime.

Mayor Daniel Lurie — a longtime philanthropist and heir to the Levi Strauss & Co. fortune — was sworn into office at the start of 2025.

Lurie said he told the president that “San Francisco is on the rise. Visitors are coming back, buildings are getting leased and purchased, and workers are coming back to the office.”

Trump said he still believes Lurie is making a mistake by declining federal law enforcement assistance “because we can do it much faster, and remove the criminals that the Law does not

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