The U.S. government must stop deploying the California National Guard in Los Angeles and return control of the troops to the state, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is traveling to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Wednesday for a dignified transfer for the two Iowa National Guard members killed in an attack in the Syrian desert that is testing the rapprochement between Washington and Damascus.

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said the Trump administration has made "clear that the only check" it wants "is a blank one."

The judge has ordered control of the the troops, which were deployed in June, to be returned to California's governor.

The order, handed down by U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer, is a blow to the Trump administration, and comes six months after the president in June deployed thousands of federalized National Guard troops to the city in response to a wave of immigration protests.