Donald Trump announces Stephen Miller to be the next deputy chief of policy
Stephen Miller, an immigration hardliner and longstanding adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, will serve as his new administration's deputy chief of policy.
Stephen Miller, an immigration hardliner and longstanding adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, will serve as his new administration's deputy chief of policy."This is another fantastic pick by the president," Vice President-elect JD Vance wrote in a congratulatory post on X on Monday, confirming the appointment. CNN was the first to report the development.Miller has been with Trump since his first White House campaign, making him one of his most seasoned advisors. He served as a senior adviser throughout Trump's first term and has played a key role in many of his policy choices, especially those pertaining to immigration, such as his 2018 decision to split up thousands of immigrant families as part of a deterrence campaign.During Trump's first year in office and during his campaigns, Miller frequently served as the public face of Trump's hard-line ideas and contributed to the creation of several of his speeches.Miller has been the president of America First Legal since leaving the White House. This group, which was founded by former Trump advisers and is a conservative take on the American Civil Liberties Union, has been battling the Biden administration, media outlets, academic institutions, and others on matters like national security and freedom of speech and religion.This year, he was also a regular at Trump's campaign, traveling on his jet and frequently speaking before Trump during the pre-shows at his rallies."Your salvation is at hand," Miller told the crowd at Trump's rally in Madison Square Garden during the closing stages of the race, following what he described as "decades of abuse that has been heaped upon the good people of this nation — their jobs stolen, looted, and from them and shipped to Mexico, Asia, and foreign countries."“We stand here today at a crossroads,” he went on, casting the election as “a choice between betrayal and renewal, between self-destruction and salvation, between the failure of America or the triumph of America.”The Senate isn't required to confirm the appointment because it is not a Cabinet position.
