WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is withdrawing hundreds of National Guard soldiers from Chicago and Portland, Oregon, just weeks after President Donald Trump ordered them there over the strenuous objections of state and local leaders, according to two U.S. officials.

Some 200 California National Guard troops who were sent to Portland and another 200 Texas National Guard members who were sent to Chicago will return to their home states beginning as early as Sunday, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the deployments.

The federalized Guard troops arrived in those cities in early October but never deployed into the streets to assist federal law enforcement personnel and protect federal buildings, as the Trump administration envisioned, because of legal challenge

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