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Here’s where things stand on Tuesday 10 June 2025:
- United States President Donald Trump has doubled down on his decision to deploy about 700 Marines to control Los Angeles protests against his immigration policies, while doubling the number of National Guard members to 4,000.
- California Governor Gavin Newsom, who said yesterday he would sue the Trump administration over the National Guard deployment, has accused the president of using members of the military as “political pawns”.
- Trump is set to deliver a speech at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg later today, marking the army’s 250th anniversary days before a massive Washington, DC parade on Saturday.
- High-level US-China trade talks have been continuing in London for a second day, with US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick saying negotiations are going well.
Protests at military parade to be met with ‘very big force’: Trump
As US President Donald Trump sends troops to protests in Los Angeles, he has also warned about upcoming demonstrations in the US capital.
Several groups are planning to protest during Saturday’s military parade, a much-hyped event that coincides with Trump’s birthday.
“For those people that want to protest, they’re going to be met with very big force,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
“I haven’t even heard about a protest, but you know, this is people that hate our country, but they will be met with very heavy force.”
Trump says Iran ‘much more aggressive’ in nuclear talks
The US president says the tone from Iranian officials has changed in recent days, amid talks over Tehran’s nuclear programme.
“Iran is acting much differently in negotiations than it did just days ago,” Trump said in an interview with Bret Baier of Fox News.
“Much more aggressive. It’s surprising to me. It’s disappointing, but we are set to meet again tomorrow – we’ll see,” he said.
The statements come as the US and Iran have remained at odds over whether Tehran should be allowed to keep its civilian nuclear enrichment programme. Talks were set to continue later this week, although both sides have offered conflicting accounts of when.
On Monday, Iran said it would present a counterproposal to the Trump administration, saying an earlier US offer was “unacceptable”.
‘What happens next?’: Lawmakers warn LA troop deployment just the beginning
Lawmakers from the Congressional Black, Hispanic and Asian Pacific American caucuses have held a news conference, warning that the military deployment to Los Angeles could just be the beginning.
“Don’t fall for the lie. This is not about protecting public safety. It’s about stoking fear and silencing peaceful dissent. It’s about turning us one against one another,” said Yvette Clarke, the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.
“This is a direct attack on civil rights, due process and our democratic norms, targeting Black and communities of colour,” she said.
“Perhaps the most sobering truth is this: for Donald Trump, Los Angeles is only the beginning. If this president is willing to send military troops into an American city over peaceful dissent, we must ask, what happens next?”
Former UN official condems US sanctioning of Palestinian rights group
Craig Mokhiber, a human rights lawyer and former UN official, has condemned the Trump administration’s sanctioning of the Addameer Prisoner Support group.
In a post on X, Mokhiber called the group a “celebrated & long-serving Palestinian human rights organisation”.
“The US, on behalf of an oppressive foreign regime, is criminalizing humanitarian & human rights work,” he wrote, referring to Israel.
Earlier today, the US State Department said it was sanctioning five individuals and what it called five “sham” charity networks.
The State Department claimed that the Ramallah-based group Addameer coordinated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which the US designates as a “terrorist” organisation.
Noem ‘condemns’ Mexico’s president for protest response
Speaking from the White House, the Homeland Security secretary accused Sheinbaum of supporting violent protests.
“Claudia Sheinbaum came out and encouraged more protests, and I condemn her for that,” Noem said. “She should not be encouraging violent protests that are going on.”
Noem’s characterisation was at odds with Sheinbaum’s actual statements.
Speaking yesterday, Mexico’s President Sheinbaum said her government does “not agree with violent actions as a form of protest”.
“We call on the Mexican community to act peacefully and not allow itself to be provoked,” she said, while calling for authorities in the US to respect human rights and due process, regardless of people’s immigration status.
Pentagon chief’s support for troop deployment a pivot from Trump’s first term
Pete Hegseth has been fielding questions before a congressional committee. Looming over the whole session has been President Trump’s decision to send first the National Guard and then Marines into Los Angeles.
The Secretary of Defense was questioned closely about this decision. He said he backed it completely, linking it to President Trump’s attempts to curb what he sees as illegal immigration.
One must remember, though, that in President Trump’s first term, when he wanted to deploy troops within the US, there was a lot of pushback from the then Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, as well as the then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley.
They both pushed back against this decision. Eventually, they put themselves in a situation where they did not deploy any military troops, and this was something that President Trump regrets and still argues about to this day.
Marine Corps head questioned over possible use of force in LA
Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, has questioned Marine Corps head General Eric Smith about potential use of force by troops deployed to Los Angeles that could result in injuries or deaths.
“I am not concerned. I have great faith in my Marines and their junior leaders and their more senior leaders to execute the lawful tasks that they are given,” Smith responded.
Smith, who was testifying at a budget hearing, said the deployed Marines are trained for crowd control and they would have shields and batons as their equipment. An official had previously told the Associated Press they would also be carrying their service weapons.
Smith added the deployed have no arrest authority and are only there to protect federal property and federal personnel.
Trump says he would ‘certainly’ invoke Insurrection Act ‘if there’s an insurrection’
The US president has been speaking during an event in the Oval Office.
“If there’s an insurrection, I would certainly invoke it,” he said of the law, which would allow the military to take part in domestic law enforcement.
“If we didn’t get involved right now, Los Angeles would be burning just like it was burning a number of months ago,” he said, again connecting the protests to his earlier criticism of California’s response to wildfires in southern California last year.
Trump claimed that in certain areas of Los Angeles last night you “could have called it an insurrection. It was terrible.”
Experts have pushed back on the notion that the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles have resembled an insurrection.
Protests over Trump’s immigration raids spread across US
Protests against Trump’s immigration raids spread to other US cities as the president said he would deploy a Marine battalion to guard federal buildings in Los Angeles.
Republicans defend LA troop deployment
House Speaker Mike Johnson has defended Trump’s response to protests in Los Angeles, while taking his own jabs at California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Johnson initially maintained it’s “not my lane” when asked if Newsom should face legal consequences such as arrest, as floated by the Trump administration.
He added that Newsom should be “tarred and feathered … for standing in the way of the administration and the carrying out of federal law”.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, meanwhile, said there were “clear failures on the part of state and local officials” and that the “federal response” was necessary.
Troop deployment to Los Angeles to cost $134m: Official
The deployment of about 700 Marines and over 4,000 National Guard troops is set to cost about $134m, a senior Pentagon official has told lawmakers.
Bryn MacDonnell, who is performing the duties of comptroller at the Pentagon, said the cost included travel, housing and food for the troops.
The deployment comes at a time when the Trump administration has sought to slash overall government spending, while simultaneously surging defence funding.
A military parade hosted in Washington, DC on Saturday, coinciding with Trump’s birthday, is estimated to cost at least $45m, as well as millions of dollars more in possible damage to the city streets.
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Here are the latest updates:
- Trump and his top officials have been defending a decision to deploy Marines and National Guard troops to California to respond to protests.
- Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth has been grilled on the cost of the deployment during a congressional hearing, but largely evaded the topic.
- The head of the Marine Corps said he had “faith” in the deployed troops, when asked about the possible use of force on civilians.
- The US commerce secretary has struck an optimistic tone on the second day of US-China trade talks.
Is it legal for Trump to deploy Marines, National Guard to Los Angeles?
It’s complicated.
Trump has cited Title 10 of the US Code in justifying deploying National Guard troops, who answer to both California’s governor and the president.
The law “allows the president to deploy National Guard units into federal service if the US is invaded, there is a “rebellion or danger of rebellion”, or the president is “unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States”.
California Governor Gavin Newsom, in a legal challenge, has said neither of those standards have been met, while also arguing the law requires Trump to get his approval to deploy National Guard troops.
When it comes to the Marines, the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act mostly forbids the military from taking part in domestic law enforcement. However, troops can be deployed to provide logistical support and to protect federal property.
However, the Insurrection Act of 1807, when invoked, suspends the limitations on the military’s legal ability to conduct domestic law enforcement.
The Trump administration has not yet invoked the law, but Trump, his vice president and his top adviser have all referred to the California protests as an “insurrection”, in what analysts say could be laying the groundwork to do so.
US NIH director says hopeful about settlement with universities over suspended grants
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya has told a US Senate panel he was hopeful that President Donald Trump’s administration would reach a settlement with universities that have had research grants suspended.
“I’m very hopeful that a resolution being made with the universities where those decisions have been made, where those grants have been paused,” Bhattacharya said while appearing at a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies on the NIH’s 2026 budget request.
The NIH has terminated 2,100 research grants totaling about $9.5bn and an additional $2.6bn in contracts since Trump took office on January 20, dozens of scientists, researchers and other employees at the agency said in a public letter. The contracts often support research, from covering equipment to nursing staff working on clinical trials.
Hegseth grilled on cost of LA troop deployment
The Pentagon chief has been taking questions during a hearing in front of House Defense Appropriations subcommittee.
In one exchange, Representative Betty McCollum, a Democrat, questioned Pete Hegseth on the troop deployment to Los Angeles, which includes about 700 Marines and more than 4,000 members of the National Guard.
Hegseth mostly evaded the question, except to say the department has a budget increase and the money to cover the costs.
US ambassador to Israel questions whether Palestinian state needs be in Palestinian territory
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has indicated a shift from Washington’s longstanding support of a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine.
Speaking during an interview with Bloomberg News published today, Huckabee did not oppose the creation of a Palestinian state, but questioned if it had to be on what is currently occupied Palestinian territory.
“Where is it going to be? Does it have to be in Judea and Samaria?” he said, referring to the biblical name for the occupied West Bank often used by the Israeli government.
“Does it need to be somewhere different? Does it need to be an opportunity for people to have a true place that is completely their own? Or is it going to be in the existing areas that are currently under the dominion of the PA [Palestinian Authority]?” he asked.
Huckabee, a staunch evangelical Christian, has supported illegal Israeli settlements that rights groups say represent the largest impediment to a future Palestinian state.
During his Republican presidential campaign, he maintained that “there’s really no such thing as a Palestinian”.
Why is the LAPD opposing Trump’s deployment of US Marines?
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has said the deployment of Marines to the city will make its job harder.
On Monday, Police Chief Jim McDonnell released a statement saying the LAPD had not received a formal notification that the Marines would be coming to LA.
“The possible arrival of federal military forces in Los Angeles absent clear coordination presents a significant logistical and operational challenge for those of us charged with safeguarding this city,” he said.
McDonnell added that the LAPD and its partners “have decades of experience managing large-scale public demonstrations, and we remain confident in our ability to do so professionally and effectively”.
History indicates that a lack of communication, coupled with differences in approach based on different agencies’ training, can inflame already tense situations that law enforcement officials confront.
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Pentagon chief says troops deployed to LA to ‘protect’ ICE agents
Speaking during a congressional hearing, Pete Hegseth framed the deployment of Marines and National Guard soldiers to Los Angeles as meant to bolster immigration agents as they conduct raids throughout the city.
“We believe ICE agents should be allowed to be safe in doing their operations, and we have deployed National Guard and the Marines to protect them in the execution of their duties,” he said.
Facing immigration enforcement resource shortages, the Trump administration has long eyed a potentially military role in its mass deportation campaign.
Trump had already deployed active troops to the US border to support immigration agents there, although the Marines can only provide logistical support under US law.
Photos: Rally in solidarity with LA protests against ICE in Austin, Texas
US Homeland Security secretary vows more immigration raids
Kristi Noem has defended Trump’s decision to deploy National Guard and Marine troops to Los Angeles, while vowing to continue the immigration raids that sparked the protests.
Noem made the comments in an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News yesterday, in which she accused Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass of protecting “criminals” in the city.
“She’s holding press conferences, talking about the fact that people have the right to peacefully protest and that they’re a city of immigrants,” Noem said. “They’re not a city of immigrants, they’re a city of criminals because she has protected them for so many years.”
Noem last week pressured immigration agents to reach a quota of 3,000 arrests a day, far above the previous 1,000 arrests per day quota that the agency was already struggling to meet.
Immigration advocates have said the quotas put pressure on agents to take increasingly drastic measures to make arrests, leading them to target longtime community members.
US commerce secretary says China trade talks going well
The positive prognosis comes as trade talks between the two economic giants entered their second day in London.
Both sides had agreed to step back from a full-blown trade war at a first round of talks in Geneva in May. They are now seeking a breakthrough on a raft of recently imposed export controls.
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Monday that the US could lift controls on goods such as semiconductors if China sped up the delivery of rare earths and magnets that are crucial to its economy.
“[Talks went on] all day yesterday, and I expect [them] all day today,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told reporters today. “They’re going well, and we’re spending lots of time together.”
The talks come after US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping talked by phone last week.
Trump hints at ‘big speech’ at Fort Bragg
The US president is set to speak at the North Carolina military base at 4pm local time (20:00 GMT) today, marking the 250th anniversary of the founding of the US Army.
Trump will on Saturday be holding a massive – and controversial – military parade in Washington, DC, marking the anniversary. The parade also falls on Trump’s 79th birthday.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said there would be a “big speech, amazing crowd!” later today.
Newsom accuses Trump of using Marines as ‘political pawns’
California’s governor has accused Trump of a “blatant abuse of power” in his response to the Los Angeles protests.
Yesterday, Gavin Newsom launched a lawsuit against Trump, saying the deployment of the National Guard without his consent was illegal.
In a post yesterday, he accused Trump of using Marines as “political pawns”.
“The Secretary of Defense is illegally deploying them onto American streets so Trump can have a talking point at his parade this weekend,” he said, referring to a military parade scheduled for Washington, DC on Saturday.
“We will sue to stop this,” he said.
Trump doubles down on deployment of troops to Los Angeles
The president has begun his day defending his decision on Truth Social to send Marines and National Guard troops to Los Angeles.
“If I didn’t ‘SEND IN THE TROOPS’ to Los Angeles the last three nights, that once beautiful and great City would be burning to the ground right now, much like 25,000 houses burned to the ground in LA due to an incompetent Governor and Mayor,” he said, referring to the fires that ravaged multiple areas of Los Angeles in January.
State officials have repeatedly pushed back on that characterisation, with the head of the LAPD saying the increase in troops actually posed logistical and coordination challenges with local law enforcement.
California Governor Gavin Newsom and other state officials have maintained that local law enforcement were well within their ability to respond to the protests that began on Friday.
Instead of restoring order, they have accused Trump of escalating the situation.
Here’s what happened yesterday
- The administration of US President Donald Trump deployed 700 US Marines to Los Angeles in what it described as a mission to protect “federal personnel and federal property”. The administration also doubled the number of National Guard members deployed to the city to 4,000.
- California state officials condemned the move, with Governor Gavin Newsom vowing more legal action after earlier in the day suing Trump over the National Guard deployment.
- Protests over Trump’s hardline immigration policies continued across the US, with advocates accusing the federal authorities of taking increasingly drastic measures to reach arrest quotas.
- The United States and China concluded their first day of trade talks in London.
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