The California governor, Gavin Newsom, has declared that “democracy is under assault” in a blistering evening address in which he accused Donald Trump of “pulling a military dragnet” across Los Angeles.
On another day of mass protests over immigration raids and the federal deployment of military forces to the state, Newsom said Trump’s immigration crackdown had gone well beyond arresting criminals and that “dishwashers, gardeners, day labourers and seamstresses” are among those being detained.
In an extraordinary ratcheting of tensions with the White House, Newsom recounted how in recent days Ice agents had grabbed people outside a Home Depot, detained a nine-months pregnant US citizen and sent unmarked cars to schools.
He said Trump’s decision to deploy the California national guard without his support as governor should be a warning to other states.
“California may be first – but it clearly won’t end here,” Newsom said.
Here’s our round-up of key Trump administration stories of the day:
Los Angeles mayor sets curfew as Newsom intensifies criticism of Trump
The city of Los Angeles is instituting a curfew for a one-square mile area of downtown, where demonstrations against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) have continued.
The mayor, Karen Bass, announced the 10-hour curfew after the police department said it had carried out more than 300 arrests of protesters in the last two days. The city’s crackdown came after Gavin Newsom filed an emergency lawsuit to block the Trump administration from using military forces to accompany Ice officers on raids throughout Los Angeles.
Protests spread across US as anger grows over Trump’s immigration crackdown
Protests against the Trump administration’s newly intensified immigration raids, centered on Los Angeles, spread across the country on Tuesday with demonstrations in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Omaha and Seattle.
Trump’s mobilization of troops in LA to cost Americans at least $134m, Hegseth says
Donald Trump’s decision to mobilise the US marines and national guard troops to Los Angeles is expected to cost taxpayers at least $134m and continue for a minimum of 60 days, the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, told lawmakers during a House hearing on Tuesday.
A total of 2,700 military personnel – 700 marines and 2,000 national guard troops – were dispatched to the city on Monday in a move that state leaders have publicly opposed.
Mike Johnson suggests Newsom should be ‘tarred and feathered’
The Republican US House speaker, Mike Johnson, advocated for a brutal form of vigilante justice to be performed on the California governor, Gavin Newsom, saying he should be “tarred and feathered” for his opposition to immigration enforcement actions.
This came after the Louisiana congressman declined to say if Newsom and other California officials should be arrested – as Trump and his “border czar”, Tom Homan, have recently floated – for allegedly impeding federal deportations.
Mexico president denies encouraging LA protests
Mexico’s president has rejected an unfounded allegation by a senior US official that she encouraged demonstrations against immigration raids in Los Angeles, saying it was “absolutely false”.
Claudia Sheinbaum responded on social media after Kristi Noem, Donald Trump’s homeland security secretary, accused her of “encouraging violent protests”.
Trump’s speech at Fort Bragg contained lies and conspiracy theories about LA
Donald Trump reiterated a slew of falsehoods and misleading statements about the tensions in the US’s second-largest city in an address to troops at the Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina.
In the speech, the president spread conspiracy theories, maligned California’s Democratic leaders and misleadingly portrayed protesters as part of a “foreign invasion”.
Trump administration to cut all USAID overseas roles
The Trump administration will eliminate all USAID (United States Agency for International Development) overseas positions worldwide by 30 September in a dramatic restructuring of remaining US foreign aid operations.
In a Tuesday state department cable obtained by the Guardian, the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, ordered the abolishment of the agency’s entire international workforce, transferring control of foreign assistance programs directly to the state department.
US not pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state
Mike Huckabee, Trump’s ambassador to Israel, has said the US is no longer pursuing the goal of an independent Palestinian state, marking what analysts describe as the most explicit abandonment yet of a cornerstone of American Middle East diplomacy.
US to put four prisoners to death this week
Four executions are scheduled across the US, marking a sharp increase in killings as Donald Trump has pushed to revive the death penalty despite growing concerns about states’ methods.
Executions are set to take place in Alabama, Florida and South Carolina. A fourth, scheduled in Oklahoma, has been temporarily blocked by a judge, but the state’s attorney general is challenging the ruling.
What else happened today:
The Smithsonian Institution has rebuffed Trump’s attempt to fire the director of its National Portrait Gallery in a direct challenge to the president.
Mark Green, the Republican chair of the homeland security committee, announced that he will retire from Congress once the House votes again on Trump’s tax bill.
Catching up? Here’s what happened on 9 June 2025.
