{"id":195275,"date":"2026-01-01T05:59:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-the-end-of-some-national-guard-efforts-and-all-childcare-payments-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T05:59:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:59:46","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-the-end-of-some-national-guard-efforts-and-all-childcare-payments-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-the-end-of-some-national-guard-efforts-and-all-childcare-payments-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: the end of some national guard efforts and all childcare payments &#8211; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump abruptly announced attempts to impose troops in some cities, while reportedly freezing childcare payments to all states \u2013 key US politics stories from 31 December at a glance<br \/>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Trump administration<\/a> has pushed through a flurry of actions on the final day of 2025, including drastic reversals on two high key issues.<br \/>Donald Trump has abruptly retreated from efforts to deploy federal troops in Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland. The move marks a significant U-turn after months of tension between the federal government and local authorities.<br \/>Separately, the Department of Health and Human Services has frozen all childcare payments to states, and funding will only be released once states prove the money is being used \u201clegitimately\u201d.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Donald Trump<\/a> has staged a sudden climbdown from his attempts to impose federal troops in law enforcement roles on Democratic-run cities, announcing on Wednesday that he was ending attempted deployments from Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/31\/trump-national-guard-deployment-stopped\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><sub class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><br \/>The Department of Health and Human Services is freezing all childcare payments to all states, an official for Donald Trump\u2019s administration <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/hhs-says-freezing-child-care-payments-minnesota-fraud-allegations\/18335717\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">told ABC News in a report published Wednesday<\/a>, just hours after department officials announced that they had frozen childcare funding to Minnesota. States\u2019 funds, the unnamed official said, will be released \u201conly when states prove they are being spent legitimately\u201d.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/31\/trump-administration-childcare-funding-freeze\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><sub class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><br \/>A US appeals court agreed on Tuesday to allow the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Trump administration<\/a> to strip <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/medicaid\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Medicaid<\/a> funding from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/planned-parenthood\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Planned Parenthood<\/a> health centers in 22 states and Washington DC. The order from the three-judge panel of the Boston-based first US circuit court of appeals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/02\/trump-planned-parenthood-medicaid-funding\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">puts on hold<\/a> an injunction issued by US district judge Indira Talwani.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/31\/planned-parenthood-medicaid-funding-ends\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><sub class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><br \/>A record 23 % of Americans believe the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/healthcare\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">healthcare<\/a> system is \u201cin a state of crisis\u201d and 47% think it has \u201cmajor problems,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/699770\/cost-leads-americans-top-mind-healthcare-concerns.aspx\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">a recent<\/a> poll from the West Health-Gallup Center on Healthcare in America.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/31\/healthcare-americans-poll-data-insurance\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><sub class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><br \/>The Kennedy Center reportedly adopted bylaws earlier this year that would limit voting to Donald Trump-appointed trustees \u2013 a controversial move that appears to reveal the long-held plan to install Trump\u2019s name to the center.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/31\/trump-kennedy-center\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><sub class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/dec\/31\/wall-street-stock-markets\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Wall Street finished 2025 near record highs<\/a><\/strong> as ballooning tech valuations and hopes of lower interest rates helped stock markets defy a year of economic uncertainty.<br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/31\/jack-smith-house-testimony\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Jack Smith, the former justice department special counsel<\/a><\/strong> who led the aborted federal prosecution of Donald Trump, told a congressional committee that he never spoke to Joe Biden about his cases, according to a new transcript of a deposition.<br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/31\/kilmar-abrego-garcia-retaliation-deportation\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">A newly unsealed order in the criminal case against Kilmar \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda<\/a><\/strong> reveals that high-level justice department officials pushed for his indictment after he was mistakenly deported and then ordered returned to the U.S.<br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/31\/trump-walz-omar-minnesota-childcare-funding\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Donald Trump took further aim at Minnesota<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s Democratic governor Tim Walz and the Somali American representative Ilhan Omar in the wake of his administration\u2019s decision to freeze federal childcare funding to their state.<br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/31\/ice-recruitment-media-campaign\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">ICE has reportedly planned a $100m<\/a><\/strong>, one-year media blitz for what it\u2019s calling \u201cwartime recruitment\u201d.<br \/>Catching up?<em> Here\u2019s what happened on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/31\/trump-administration-news-updates-today\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">30 December 2025<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a 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