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Trump Appoints Stephen Miller as White House Chief of Staff
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In Short: President Donald Trump announced Friday the appointment of Stephen Miller as White House chief of staff, replacing Susie Wiles.
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Midterm election fallout: Trump promotes Stephen Miller to White House Chief of Staff. ABC11
President Donald Trump announced Friday the appointment of Stephen Miller as White House chief of staff, replacing Susie Wiles, who resigned Thursday night.
Miller, known for his hardline stance on immigration, will assume the role Monday, Nov. 9, according to Trump's Truth Social post.
The appointment signals a shift by the president toward even tougher stances in this new phase of his second term, following the Republican Party's defeat in the midterm elections.
Miller, who was deputy chief of staff, has been key in shaping many of Trump's controversial policies, particularly on immigration.
In a Truth Social post, Trump praised Miller, calling him 'one of my most trusted advisors' and stating that he will 'make a change.'
Wiles, 69, who became the first woman to serve as White House chief of staff, will be reassigned to the 'Trump Political Operation,' according to Trump's post.
Miller's appointment comes days after the midterm elections delivered a resounding rebuke of the president’s second-term policies.
Miller, a staunch Trump defender and immigration hard-liner, will take over for Wiles on Nov. 9, Trump said.
Miller, who was serving as White House deputy chief of staff, will assume the role Monday, Nov. 9.
Miller, the president’s deputy chief of staff and a vocal proponent of the administration’s mass deportations policy agenda, will become the chief of staff starting on Monday, he wrote in a post on Truth Social.
Miller, known for his hardline stance on immigration, has been a key figure in the administration's efforts to secure the border and implement mass deportation policies.
Miller, who was deputy chief of staff for policy since January 2025, was described by Trump as “one of my most trusted advisors.”
What this adds
Miller’s appointment signals a shift by the president toward even tougher stances in this new phase of his second term.
Miller’s hardline stance on immigration has been a key factor in shaping Trump's policies, including the controversial 'Zero Tolerance' policy and wide-scale visa restrictions.
Miller’s promotion has drawn criticism from Democrats, with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries stating that Democrats will not work with Miller due to his 'extremism.'
Background
President Donald Trump announced Friday the appointment of Stephen Miller as White House chief of staff, replacing Susie Wiles.
Miller’s appointment signals a shift by the president toward even tougher stances in this new phase of his second term.
What's confirmed
- The appointment of the former domestic policy adviser signals a tougher stance by the administration following the Republicans’ defeat in the midterm elections In the first shake-up at the White House following the disastrous midterm elections for the Republican Party, U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday the appointment of one of his most hardline advisors on immigration, Stephen Miller, as his new chief of staff.
- White House Deputy Chief of Staff Richard Walters, a longtime ally of outgoing White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, is leaving the Trump administration following President Donald Trump's decision to replace Wiles with Stephen Miller.
- InDepthNH.org is republishing this story by The Associated Press in partnership with the AP Journalism Fund President Donald Trump said Friday that Stephen Miller was replacing Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, mere days after Republicans lost control of Congress in the midterm elections.
- “President Trump is the most transformative political leader in American History — and he has single-handedly saved America from those who would destroy it,” Miller said Friday on social media after the announcement.
- President Donald Trump on Friday announced that Stephen Miller will replace Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, three days after the midterm elections delivered a resounding rebuke of the president’s second-term policies.
- Stephen Miller will replace Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, President Donald Trump announced Friday, elevating one of his most trusted advisers and a leading immigration hard-liner to the administration’s top staff position.
- President Donald Trump announced Friday that Stephen Miller will become White House chief of staff, replacing Susie Wiles, who resigned Thursday night, according to a source familiar with the matter.
- WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that Stephen Miller was replacing Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, installing as his closest adviser a loyal, combative bulldog for his “America First” agenda as the president prepares to stare down a newly empowered Democratic Congress next year.
- President Donald Trump on Friday announced that Stephen Miller, the architect of the hard-line immigration and deportation program voters rejected this week, will become White House chief of staff.
- Deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller -- a Trump loyalist, longtime political adviser and shaper of the president's immigration policies -- will take over on Monday, Trump said.
- Just days after the Republican Party's resounding defeat in the midterm elections, U.S. President Donald Trump is replacing his top political adviser, chief of staff Susie Wiles, with immigration hardliner Stephen Miller.
- House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said Sunday that Democrats will not work with Stephen Miller, days after President Trump named his longtime adviser White House chief of staff.
What's still developing
- Miller, Trump’s advisor on domestic policy, Wiles’s “number two,” and one of the men who has consistently stood by the president since Trump’s first election campaign, holds extremely hardline positions on immigration — to the point that the president had joked that they were too radical even for him.
- During that campaign, former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham accused Miller of physical abuse while they were dating, allegations Miller denied.
- In Entertainment Weekly’ s exclusive first look at the midseason trailer, a giddy Ciara Miller is ready to officially give things another shot with West Wilson as two dark shadows appear to be the duo kissing.
- Here are some memorable things Miller has said through the years: During a 2023 spike in illegal border crossings, Miller described migrants as invaders, even though many were escaping poverty and violence in their home countries.
- The Democrat leader also blamed Miller — previously Trump’s top advisor on immigration — for the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, two protesters killed by federal agents in Minneapolis last January.
- The lockdown was lifted an hour later, according to the White House press pool.
- "Richard has been an invaluable member of the White House and has helped deliver some of the Administration’s biggest victories. While he will be leaving us, Richard will continue to help from the outside as we continue to work with all of our strength to deliver for President Trump and his courageous fight to Save America," Miller said.
- Left-wing Democrat Hakeem Jeffries, the presumed incoming Speaker of the House in 2027, implied Monday that he will not work with White House chief of staff Stephen Miller.
- Miller is credited with shaping the Department of Justice’s 2018 “Zero Tolerance” policy at the US border, which called for the arrest of nearly every adult crossing into the US without legal documentation.
- Miller also drove wide-scale visa restrictions during Trump’s first term, including a 2017 travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries, which came to be known as the “Muslim travel ban”.
- In May 2025, Miller told Fox News the administration had “set a goal of a minimum of 3,000 arrests for ICE every day, and President Trump is going to keep pushing to get that number up higher each and every day”.
- Miller, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought and White House lawyers have worked since April to identify executive actions Trump could take without new legislation, including measures on immigration, tariffs, housing costs and federal spending, Reuters reported Sunday, citing three people familiar with the planning.