Federal deployment to San Francisco called off

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How San Francisco’s mayor scored a political victory by convincing Trump to stay away
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie scored a major political win this week by enlisting the help of influential business leaders who convinced President Donald Trump to pause plans to send federal troops to the city.

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Mayor: Trump drops San Francisco troop plan and federal agent surge to Bay Area
Mayor Lurie says Trump's pullback of federal agents is a San Francisco victory
Trump Calls Off Surge to San Francisco as Legal Battles Over Guard Continue Across the US
President Donald Trump says he’s no longer planning to “surge” federal law enforcement and immigration resources to San Francisco, citing conversations with “friends” in the area and the city’s mayor.

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Phone calls from these two tech CEOs stopped Donald Trump from deploying national guard in San Francisco
I spoke to Mayor Lurie last night and he asked, very nicely, that I give him a chance to see if he can turn it around.

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How the San Francisco Mayor Avoided Trump’s Enforcement Surge
Tech leaders, mayor changed mind about using troops in San Francisco: Trump

Trump backs off federal surge in San Francisco after call with mayor

ALAMEDA, Calif. — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after speaking to the mayor, as protesters gathered outside a U.S. Coast Guard base where they were located.

San Francisco mayor rejects Trump's National Guard deployment plan over drug dealer arrest authority

Mayor Daniel Lurie said the National Guard cannot arrest drug dealers and opposed President Donald Trump's deployment plan for San Francisco crime crackdown.

A tech firm with ties to Mayor Lurie got a big city contract. Did it get preferential treatment?

Mayor Daniel Lurie's administration is defending the process it followed to give a tech company a contract worth up to $5.9 million in the first year to overhaul San Francisco's permitting system.
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The US in brief: San Francisco wins a reprieve

Donald Trump abandoned a plan to send federal law-enforcement and immigration agents to San Francisco. The president said that the city’s mayor, Daniel Lurie, “asked, very nicely” for the reprieve. Jensen Huang and Marc Benioff,
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