CALIFORNIA National Guard and protestors in Los Angeles (WIkipedia)

The deployment of about 2,000 California National Guard soldiers to the Los Angeles area to back immigration enforcement activities is ending, the Pentagon announced on Tuesday.

According to the Associated Press, that would leave 2,000 CNG troops in place. The original force of 4,000 soldiers and 700 U.S. Marines was sent in response to protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles, Orange and other counties.

They had the responsibility of protecting federal buildings and immigration agents and – officially – were not involved in making arrests or transporting detainees.

It’s not known how long the remaining 2,700 troops will continue to be in place. Their deployment came over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.

Layoffs of health workers are official

Notices of layoffs for thousands of workers in the Department of Health and Human Services were finalized on Tuesday.

The New York Times is reporting that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Health Secretary, announced in March that he was ordering the terminal of 10,000 employees.

Lawsuits challenging the decision – authorized by President Donald Trump – delayed enforcement of the order. However, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the move and overturned a lower-court action blocking the layoff.

Some workers have been offered their jobs back after the April firings, including those working in the fields of occupational health, lead poisoning response and food safety lab professionals.

Cancelling Trump’s cancellations?

President Donald Trump’s move to cancel $9.4 billion in money that’s already been approved is now the subject of some Senate Republicans efforts.

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According to The Associated Press, those senators are hoping to preserve an estimated $1.1 billion in money for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (parent of the Public Broadcasting System/PBS) and about $9.4 billion in foreign aid programs that are believed to have saves millions of lives with its global health efforts.

That program was started by President George W. Bush and featured AIDs prevention in Africa. The money that Trump is seeking to “claw back” has been identified as “wasteful” by the semi-official Department of Government Efficiency, started by Elon Musk.

Weather: 78 or 79. Your choice

You don’t have to be a meteorologist to predict the weather over the next few days in our West Orange County cities. The forecast calls for morning clouds on Wednesday turning to sun that afternoon. Partly cloudy conditions will move in on Thursday through Saturday with daily highs of 78 or 79 and 64 at night.

Great Thoughts

“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for extraordinary destiny.”
– Christopher Markus

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
– Plato

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
– Lao Tsu