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Trump admin live updates: Gov. says 'no need' after Trump directs troops to Portland

Portland's mayor said he has not asked for an increase in federal officers.

Last Updated: September 28, 2025, 1:39 PM EDT

President Donald Trump announced that he ordered federal troops to Portland, Oregon, due to what he alleged were threats from domestic terrorists.

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson, however, chastized the president and stressed that city leaders did not make any request to Washington.

Sep 27, 2025, 8:24 PM EDT

Top congressional leaders to meet with Trump on Monday ahead of funding deadline

The top four congressional leaders will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday ahead of the government funding deadline, a White House official and multiple congressional sources confirmed to ABC News.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries are expected to be in attendance.

President Donald Trump walks to speak to the press before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, September 26, 2025 ahead of a trip to the Ryder Cup in Bethpage, New York.
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This comes after Trump canceled a previously scheduled meeting with congressional leaders.

PHOTO: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer,  and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries hold a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, June 11, 2025.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries hold a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, June 11, 2025.
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Democrats have been demanding a bipartisan meeting to address government funding. They also want provisions included in the funding bill that would protect health care programs, including an extension of the Affordable Care Act enhanced tax credits.

Punchbowl News first reported the meeting.

-ABC News' Rachel Scott, Lauren Peller and Isabella Murray

Sep 27, 2025, 6:33 PM EDT

Oregon governor joins Portland mayor, police chief to speak out against Trump's order to send troops

Gov. Tina Kotek joined Portland officials Saturday afternoon to push back against Trump's order to send federal troops to the city.

"There is no need for military troops in our city," she said at the news conference adding that any federal takeover was a "threat to communities across Oregon."

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Democratic Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek speaks at a news conference in Portland, Ore., on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, after Republican President Donald Trump said he would send troops to the city.
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She warned Oregon residents "not to take the bait."

"Let's not respond to what the President is trying to do. We have to raise our voices, absolutely, peacefully, to the things that we believe in. I also want to say that property damage, or violence of any kind, will get us nowhere and will not be tolerated," she said.

Portland Chief of Police Bob Day told reporters that despite the president's claims, he has not seen an uptick in violent unrest.

"We have had literally tens upon thousands of Portlanders walking the streets in our parks, expressing their First Amendment right, their opinion, their dissidence, with what they're seeing happening on a federal or even a local level, and yet we have not had arrests," he said.

"We have not had vandalism, we have not had the challenges that we have faced in years past," he added.

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Portland Mayor Keith Wilson speaks at a news conference in Portland, Ore., on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, after Republican President Donald Trump said he would send troops to the city. (AP Photo/Claire Rush)
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Portland Mayor Keith Wilson called the potential troop deployment a "show of force."

"After a big show everyone goes home and that's what I want to happen here today," he said.

-ABC News' Jeffrey Cook

Sep 27, 2025, 11:46 AM EDT

Trump orders Hegseth to send troops to Portland

Trump said Saturday that he's directed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to provide "all necessary troops" to Portland, Oregon, and to any other ICE facility that is facing threats from the antifa movement or from any other domestic terrorists.

Trump said on social media that he's authorizing "Full Force," if necessary.

Members of the Ohio National Guard patrol at the National Mall, weeks after President Donald Trump ordered an increased presence of federal law enforcement to assist in crime prevention, in Washington, D.C. Sept. 16, 2025.
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Antifa is not a group, but rather a political philosophy or movement. The term comes from the longer "anti-fascist" and is used as a catchall for groups that oppose the concept of authoritarianism, neo-Nazism and white supremacy.

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson told reporters Friday night that there has been a sudden influx of federal agents in the city.

In this July 15, 2025, file photo, Portland Mayor Keith Wilson speaks to the crowd at an event at the Moda Center in Portland, Oregon.
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"We did not ask for them to come. They are here without precedent or purpose,” he said.

On Thursday, the president signed a presidential memorandum directing an administration-wide effort aimed at cracking down on alleged "domestic terrorism" and "organized political violence."

He has threatened to send National Guard troops to cities to assist with ICE operations and combat crime.

-ABC News' Isabella Murray

Sep 27, 2025, 2:07 AM EDT

Bondi deploying DOJ agents to 'under siege' ICE facilities

In a post to X early on Saturday, Attorney General Pam Bondi said she was "deploying DOJ agents to ICE facilities -- and wherever ICE comes under siege -- to safeguard federal agents, protect federal property and immediately arrest all individuals engaged in any federal crime."

Bondi's post came as protesters clashed with federal agents outside the Chicago ICE processing center on Friday night.

A federal agent stands guard outside the Broadview ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois, on Sept. 26, 2025.
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Bondi cited what she called an "onslaught of violence perpetrated against ICE officers across our country," for the decision.

Bondi added that, "pursuant to President Trump's recent executive action," she would instruct the Joint Terrorism Task Forces to "to disrupt and investigate all entities and individuals engaged in acts of domestic terrorism, including the repeated acts of violence and obstruction against federal agents."

The DOJ, she said, "will seek the most serious available charges against all participants in these criminal mobs, including conspiracy offenses, assault offenses, civil disorder offenses and terrorism offenses."

"While these never-ending attacks are designed to break our will, they only strengthen our resolve to complete the work begun," Bondi wrote. "The rule of law will prevail."

-ABC News' Ahmad Hemingway

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