Trump names Stephen Miller chief of staff, replacing Wiles
The architect of the mass deportation drive takes over Monday, three days after Republicans lost control of Congress.
Donald Trump has named Stephen Miller his chief of staff. The president announced the move Friday on Truth Social: Miller, until now a deputy chief of staff and homeland security adviser, takes over Monday, Nov. 9. Susie Wiles, whom he replaces, will stay with Trump in the president's political operation.
Miller is the main force behind the mass deportation drive, the policy that weighs most on Mexicans and their families in the United States. As chief of staff he will control access to the president and coordinate the entire Cabinet.
Trump called him "one of my most trusted advisers." Asked about the change, the president said: "I wanted to make a change."
No woman had held the job before Wiles, 69, and no Trump chief of staff has lasted as long. She wrote on X that serving Trump from the White House was "the honor of a lifetime." Vice President JD Vance said Miller "will do great things."
House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries called Miller "a dangerous xenophobe" and "a reckless extremist."
Republicans lost control of Congress in Tuesday's midterm elections, and the White House shake-up came three days later. Miller, 41, was a speechwriter when he joined Trump's 2016 campaign, and before that he advised then-Sen. Jeff Sessions. In October, Trump had denied he would replace Wiles.
Miller starts Monday facing a hostile Congress, with deportations still at the center of his agenda.
