Gen. Gregory Guillot, the leader of U.S. Northern Command, made the request to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, proposing that 200 out of roughly 4,000 California National Guard members be moved from Los Angeles to wildfire duty elsewhere in California.

A National Guard commander had requested that some of the troops Trump deployed for his Los Angeles crackdown be allowed to return to firefighting.

Gen. Gregory Guillot sent a request to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth that 200 troops be reassigned to the California National Guard’s wildfire unit.

The Trump administration recently approved a request from the military commander of the National Guard troops deployed to respond to immigration-related unrest in the Los Angeles area to return some of the troops to California's command.

From the column: "The maelstrom Trump created (in California last month) was about much more than immigration. … It seemed like a president ... (using power) against U.S. citizens he dislikes.”

President Trump’s administration filed a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles on Monday over its sanctuary city ordinance.