Stephen Miller
Stephen Miller holds a senior White House post that no voter chose and no Senate vote approved. He is an unelected advisor, and his positions do not require confirmation. Since 2025 he has served Donald Trump as deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security advisor. Before that, from 2017 to 2021, he was senior advisor to the president and director of speechwriting.
Miller was born in 1985. Within about forty years he became one of the most influential figures of the Trump administrations and of the Trumpism movement. His politics have been described as far-right, anti-immigration, and white nationalist.
How does a young man from California reach that position? Which mentors and allies carried him from campus controversy to the West Wing? What did he actually build once he arrived, and what did it cost him in public standing? The answers begin with a teenager who was already looking for a microphone.
Stephen Miller was born on the 23rd of August 1985 in the North of Montana neighborhood of Santa Monica, California. He was the second of three children. His mother, Miriam, was a Columbia University graduate who became a social worker. His father, Michael, was a lawyer who also worked in the family real estate business. In 1998, when Miller was thirteen, his parents sold their house and bought a smaller one in a less affluent area. The family is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, and its ancestors escaped Russian pogroms and the Holocaust.
At Hebrew school at Beth Shir Shalom, classmates already saw him as a contrarian. In 1999 he began at Santa Monica High School, and the reputation followed him. He opposed the school's chapter of the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan. The chapter's founder described him as taunting immigrants, and he reportedly insisted that students and teachers speak English.
Talk radio gave him a megaphone. Miller called in to The Larry Elder Show and persuaded the host to visit his school. After the September 11 attacks he returned to the program to describe a Canadian teacher who put an American flag on the floor. Miller alleged the teacher dragged the flag across the floor and trampled it, though other students remembered it differently. By his own count, he appeared on Elder's show sixty-nine times.
In 2002 he ran for student announcer. His campaign speech questioned why students were told to pick up trash when the school already employed custodians. The student body disapproved, and he lost. The school newspaper, The Samohi, lampooned him in an April Fools' Day issue. He also took part in the band program, tennis, religious studies, and political and youth groups.
Author Jean Guerrero writes that his favorite musician was Elvis Presley and his favorite film was Martin Scorsese's Casino, released in 1995. She adds that he sometimes copied the look of Robert De Niro playing a mobster. He dressed like the movies on trips to Las Vegas, where he was a skilled craps player. He often wore a suit, telling Elder he liked to make a good first impression. As an adult he still favored expensive, American-made, bespoke suits.
The conservative writer David Horowitz heard Miller on Elder's program and became a long-term connection. Miller invited him to speak at the school, and Horowitz invited Miller to his home. In an article on Horowitz's website, FrontPage Magazine, Miller asked the school to embrace what he called "inclusive patriotism" and to recite the Pledge of Allegiance five days a week. The school adopted the pledge, which Miller reported as a "huge victory". Guerrero judges that by his graduation in 2003 he had drawn more publicity than probably any other student in his class.
Miller began at Duke University that same year to study political science. In 2004 he was outraged that Duke scheduled a Palestine Solidarity Movement conference. He founded a campus chapter of Horowitz's Students for Academic Freedom and rallied students against the event. The next year he wrote a Duke Chronicle column called "Miller Time", and his combative style earned him a reputation for pugnacity.
Horowitz came to speak at Duke and named Miller to lead the Terrorism Awareness Project. That initiative conflated Muslims and Arabs with terrorists. Miller promoted it on Fox and Friends.
The Duke lacrosse case gave him a larger stage. Three members of the men's lacrosse team were accused of rape, and Miller defended them, arguing they were presumed guilty for being white males. He made the case on Nancy Grace and in an interview with Bill O'Reilly. Reports later emerged that the accuser, Crystal Mangum, had concealed a negative DNA test result, yet Miller kept discussing the case. He later told McKay Coppins of The Atlantic that backing the players was his greatest college achievement.
By his junior year Miller had joined the Duke Conservative Union, and by the start of his senior year he was its executive director. The job let him raise money. Through the union he met Richard B. Spencer, who later became known as a white supremacist. The two organized an immigration debate in March 2007.
Miller told Nancy Grace he wanted to be a prosecutor, and Horowitz knew he would like to be a senator. Yet he skipped the LSAT, which law school applications required. He later said he was focused on building a memorial for the September 11 attacks. After graduating in 2007 he traveled across Eurasia, including a Birthright Israel trip.
By December 2007 Miller was press secretary to Minnesota representative Michele Bachmann, a job that came through Horowitz. He moved to Washington, D.C., where his family helped him buy a US$450000 condominium. By 2009 both Miller and Horowitz had grown disillusioned with Bachmann. Horowitz referred him to Arizona representative John Shadegg, and Miller joined Tea Party protests against Barack Obama.
In June 2009 Horowitz recommended him again, and Miller became press secretary to Alabama senator Jeff Sessions. There he worked on immigration policy. He wanted to give his criticisms legitimacy and a larger audience, so he built ties with the Center for Immigration Studies, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, and NumbersUSA. By August 2014 he was Sessions's communications manager.
That year he met Steve Bannon and Andrew Breitbart. Both men recognized him from his rebukes of his high school, and Bannon became an enduring ally. His parents also helped him buy a US$1 million condominium in CityCenterDC.
The defining fight of this period was over the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013. Four Democratic and four Republican senators, known as the Gang of Eight, proposed the reform bill. It passed the Democratic-controlled Senate. Miller and Sessions campaigned against it, and the Republican-controlled House never took it up after Miller brought staffers a binder of talking points and research.
Miller also helped Dave Brat mount a primary challenge that defeated Virginia representative Eric Cantor, then the House majority leader. In January 2015 he and Sessions wrote Immigration Handbook for the New Republican Majority. It was a rebuttal to the Republican Party's own review of Mitt Romney's loss in the 2012 presidential election.
Miller worked just as hard on the media side. He tried to influence the editorial coverage of Breitbart News, sending editors links to the far-right website VDARE and to American Renaissance, a white-supremacist online magazine. His efforts brought Breitbart's language into Congress and shaped immigration coverage at The Daily Caller. Kurt Bardella, a former Breitbart spokesman, called him almost a de facto assignment editor.
In November 2019 Katie McHugh published a summary of about nine hundred emails Miller sent to Breitbart News between March 2015 and June 2016. In them he worried that Mexican survivors of Hurricane Patricia might receive temporary protected status. He also urged editors to read The Camp of the Saints, a 1973 novel about the destruction of Western civilization through mass immigration. Julia Hahn reviewed the book for Breitbart.
The Southern Poverty Law Center later obtained more emails. In one, Miller linked a think tank article about a rise in newborns named "Mohammed". A story on the subject appeared on Breitbart the next day.
In June 2015 businessman Donald Trump declared his candidacy for president. Miller was drawn to Trump's views on race. He told Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear, for their book Border Wars, that Trump "doubled down, breaking that apology-retreat cycle". Miller believed that gave confidence to a populace he saw as perpetually dissatisfied.
He was especially eager to defeat Florida senator Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants and a member of the Gang of Eight. Matthew Boyle of Breitbart News referred Miller to Sam Nunberg, a consultant on the Trump campaign. Sessions recommended him, but campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was reluctant to hire him. Miller contributed anyway, preparing Trump's immigration policies without the campaign's backing.
In January 2016 he joined as a senior policy advisor. At Bannon's urging, and with encouragement from Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, he began writing speeches. Miller sharpened Trump's language, often inserting the phrase "radical Islam". In February Sessions became the first senator to endorse Trump, which damaged the rival campaign of Texas senator Ted Cruz.
By March Miller was the opening act at Trump rallies. He wrote the acceptance speech for the 2016 Republican National Convention and served as the campaign's policy liaison there. He also helped Trump prepare to debate Hillary Clinton. After the convention the campaign switched to a teleprompter, and Miller became the principal speechwriter. By August he was national policy director and was appointed to lead an economic team.
Bannon later persuaded Trump not to stray from speeches that he and Miller wrote. After Trump won, Miller kept the policy director title for the transition and led much of the preparation for the first one hundred days. Trump chose him to write the inaugural address.
In December 2016 Trump named Miller senior advisor to the president for policy, and his role was later clarified to include oversight of the Domestic Policy Council. Bannon and Miller co-wrote many of the first executive orders. One of them instituted the Muslim travel ban.
The White House split into two camps. The Washington wing gathered around chief of staff Reince Priebus and press secretary Sean Spicer. The Breitbart wing formed around Miller and Bannon. Politico reported that Priebus's allies were wary of Miller. In January 2017 he led a principals committee meeting on immigration, according to the Los Angeles Times.
In February 2017 The New York Times reported that Trump had urged Priebus to impose conventional protocols. That included limiting the unfettered access of Bannon and Miller. Other officials had not been briefed on the travel ban order until after it was signed. That month Miller wrote Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress, and he sought to purge Obama's political appointees from the federal government.
In April the balance shifted as Bannon clashed with Kushner. Miller told colleagues he was not affiliated with Bannon. He began working with the Office of American Innovation, which Kushner led, on energy and regulatory issues. Even so, he remained Bannon's ally.
Miller supported the dismissal of FBI director James Comey and drafted the letter firing him. He and Bannon were allegedly responsible for removing a line about Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty from Trump's speech before the 2017 Brussels NATO summit. That led to a dispute with national security advisor H. R. McMaster. In June, Politico reported that secretary of state Rex Tillerson had sparred with Miller after Miller said the State Department should be tougher on immigration.
In August, at a press briefing on the RAISE Act, Miller sparred with CNN's Jim Acosta, accusing him of "cosmopolitan bias". Days later Reuters reported Miller was a contender to succeed Anthony Scaramucci as communications director.
Under chief of staff John F. Kelly, Miller was largely successful at influencing Trump. Earlier, when Kelly led the Department of Homeland Security, Miller had unsuccessfully backed employee union presidents with no supervisory experience to head ICE and Customs and Border Protection. Miller and his allies then blocked Kelly from naming Alan Metzler as his chief of staff, and Kelly offered the job to Kirstjen Nielsen. Miller also advocated pardoning Joe Arpaio, the Maricopa County sheriff convicted of contempt of court.
Speechwriting remained his steady duty. Miller wrote the 2018 State of the Union Address. The next year Trump worked on that address with him, and Miller took a more active role. For the 2020 address he led the writing but tried to temper his influence on its tone.
In September 2017 Trump announced a gradual end to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a program Miller had urged him to end. The New York Times reported that Miller was pushing to cut the refugee quota from 110,000, set by Obama, to 15,000. Trump later said he would set it at 45,000. Even so, Miller's efforts shaped policy. After Trump reached a tentative DACA deal with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, Miller drafted a hard-line list that included hiring ten thousand immigration enforcement agents.
In January 2018 a government shutdown loomed over DACA. Trump privately said he would negotiate legal status for people brought to the country illegally as children. Kelly and Miller rejected any deal not paired with strict immigration limits. Republican negotiators accused Miller of blocking an agreement. He also pressed for a veto of the Consolidated Appropriations Act over funding for the Trump wall.
Miller advocated the family separation policy. In April 2018 he was instrumental in Trump's decision to intensify enforcement, according to The New York Times. A backlash followed in June, including internal conflict aimed at Miller. He kept planning an immigration crackdown through executive authority and rule changes, meeting privately for fear that "hostile bureaucrats" would leak. That month the Supreme Court upheld the travel ban. Chief justice John Roberts backed the assertion that the president could use Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to "suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens". Trump then signed an order ending family separation.
By September 2018 secretary of state Mike Pompeo announced a refugee quota of 30,000. That month the Department of Homeland Security proposed denying permanent residency to immigrants who had received benefits such as Medicare or Section 8 housing aid. The next month brought federal troops to the border and proposed action on migrant caravans and birthright citizenship. A Republican close to the White House called it "a dream come true" for Miller.
In December 2018, with a second shutdown looming over wall funding, Miller said the administration would "do whatever is necessary" to build the wall. In a meeting on the crisis, Kushner defended Miller as an immigration expert, though Kushner's support for legal immigration put them in conflict. Senior Republican aides worried Miller could persuade Trump that a compromise would amount to humiliation.
The sharpest display of his reach came in April 2019. Within two days Trump withdrew Ronald Vitiello's nomination to lead ICE, and Nielsen was ousted as homeland security secretary. Randolph Alles left the Secret Service, and a wider purge followed across the department. The New York Times called it a signal of Miller's enduring influence and said he orchestrated it. Texas senator John Cornyn was among Republicans who worried about his authority. Acting secretary Kevin McAleenan resisted Miller's further efforts to dismiss officials, while Ken Cuccinelli was named acting director of Citizenship and Immigration Services.
In June 2019 Trump imposed tariffs on Mexico over the border crisis, an idea offered by Miller and trade official Peter Navarro. The next month Citizenship and Immigration Services issued a rule favoring wealthier immigrants for permanent residency, an initiative Miller had led. In December he developed a plan to use data held by Health and Human Services on migrant children to target them and their families for deportation. Officials at the department rejected it.
The COVID-19 pandemic opened new options. In April 2020 Trump suspended family-based immigration. Miller told conservative allies on a private conference call that the halt was one step in a broader plan. According to defense secretary Mark Esper, he reportedly called for as many as a quarter of a million troops at the Mexican border.
Miller wrote the speech Trump gave before the January 6 Capitol attack, and he stayed with Trump afterward. In October 2021 Trump asserted executive privilege over documents relating to Miller, as the Department of Justice investigated efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The department subpoenaed Miller in September 2022. The House committee investigating the attack subpoenaed him too, citing his false fraud claims and his role in the fake electors plot.
In March 2022 Miller sued to block the committee from his phone records, arguing the subpoena would invade his parents' privacy because he was on their family plan. The next month he testified privately about the pre-attack speech. Representatives pressed him on his use of the word "we". Judge Beryl Howell compelled his testimony in March 2023, and the appeals court for the District of Columbia reaffirmed that ruling weeks later.
Out of office, he built his own institution. In March 2021 Politico reported that Miller was forming America First Legal, a conservative legal advocacy organization. He consulted the Conservative Partnership Institute and lawyer Ken Starr, and he asked Chicago Cubs co-owner Todd Ricketts for funding. He announced the group in March and established it in April.
He also advised candidates, including Alabama representative Mo Brooks in the 2022 Senate race and, from December, Bridgewater Associates chief executive Dave McCormick. House speaker Kevin McCarthy courted him to win over the far right and the Freedom Caucus. In November 2023 The New York Times described a Miller-led effort to place lawyers such as Chad Mizelle and Aaron Reitz in a second Trump term. It also described his plans for raids, mass deportations, and larger detention facilities.
After the 2024 election, CNN reported Trump was expected to name Miller deputy chief of staff for policy. Vice president-elect JD Vance confirmed the choice on X hours later. On the 13th of November, Trump announced Miller would also be homeland security advisor. His role was muted publicly, but he was expected to hold significant sway over agency heads.
According to The Atlantic, Miller captained the administration's assault on elite universities such as Harvard and Columbia. He was central to cutting $400 million in federal funding to Columbia, which ended in a $221 million settlement and compliance with the administration's demands. The New York Times described the Harvard fight as part of an effort to break liberalism's hold on higher education.
On immigration, Miller began educating Elon Musk about the federal bureaucracy. The two found common cause in describing undocumented immigrants as a threat to Western civilization. He oversaw a team writing the initial executive orders. His strategy relied on existing laws, such as the Alien Enemies Act, to deport people quickly and skip lengthy hearings. He also sought to restore Title 42 expulsions and told transition advisers not to worry that immigration actions might bring lawsuits. He also pushed to limit Americans' ability to sponsor close relatives.
Aides said his clout at the Department of Justice was striking, since a non-lawyer could hold sway over the attorney general. Pam Bondi successfully pushed Trump to nominate Hillsborough County sheriff Chad Chronister to run the Drug Enforcement Administration. Miller was critical of Chronister, who withdrew. Journalists Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis report in Injustice that Miller pressed acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove to dismiss FBI officials more vigorously, citing the bureau's nominal director, Kash Patel.
In April 2025 Miller told reporters that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national, was not mistakenly deported. That contradicted Justice Department court papers citing "administrative error". The next month he said the administration was considering suspending habeas corpus for immigrants. In May 2025 Axios reported that Miller and homeland security secretary Kristi Noem set an arrest quota of three thousand people per day. The Justice Department later denied any quota in a case over protests in Los Angeles.
Miller led Trump's federalization of the District of Columbia National Guard. After Charlie Kirk was assassinated, Miller went on The Charlie Kirk Show and vowed to use the Justice and Homeland Security departments against organizations he blamed for a "vast domestic terror movement". As homeland security advisor he separated the Homeland Security Council from the National Security Council, breaking with precedent. Anonymous sources told The Guardian and The New York Times that through that council he sometimes outranked Marco Rubio in the decision to strike Venezuelan boats. The Financial Times reported that he was also tasked with preventing actions that could damage relations with China.
Miller began identifying with conservative ideologies in the seventh grade. Larry Elder told The New York Times that Miller read Ayn Rand and The Federalist Papers in high school. Former dormmates at Duke said he called himself a libertarian. He supported a Trump presidential run as early as 2014. In July 2020 the Southern Poverty Law Center added him to its database of extremists. After Obama spoke at the 2020 Democratic National Convention, Miller called him one of the worst presidents, if not the worst, in American history.
On immigration, Miller opposes illegal immigration and argues that both documented and undocumented immigrants have swelled the labor market and lowered wages. In January 2017 he privately proposed replacing the H-1B visa lottery with preference for high-salary jobs. His uncle, the neuropsychologist David S. Glosser, wrote in Politico Magazine in August 2018 that Miller was a hypocrite on the subject. Miller called DACA "mass backdoor amnesty" and told Fox News that Afghan refugees fleeing after the 2021 Taliban offensive would bring chaos.
He supported a "binary choice" model for family separation. Families would either let their children be separated voluntarily or waive the children's humanitarian protections so that the family could be detained together without a time limit.
In September 2023 he made a sweeping claim about immigrant groups, saying that the first generation is unsuccessful and that issues persist in every later generation. He cited high welfare use, high criminal activity, and failures to assimilate.
His foreign remarks have drawn fire. After the September 11 attacks, Miller wrote in high school that he relished "the thought of watching Osama Bin Laden being riddled to death with bullets". In his book A Sacred Oath, Mark Esper alleged that Miller suggested dipping Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's head in pig's blood and parading it as a warning. Miller denied it and called Esper a "moron".
In January 2026, after the American capture of Nicolas Maduro, Miller renewed calls to invade and occupy Greenland. He told Jake Tapper that the world is "governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power". Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen said an annexation would mean the end of NATO. Republican senator Thom Tillis called Miller's remarks "amateurish" and "absurd".
Elsewhere, Miller alleged voter fraud in 2016 and 2020. In February 2017 he told George Stephanopoulos that voters had been bussed into New Hampshire, a claim state officials rejected. After the 2020 loss, he argued on Fox News that an "alternate slate of electors" could secure Trump's victory. In August 2025 he accused India of effectively financing Russia's war in Ukraine by buying Russian oil. He supports Israel and the Abraham Accords, and during the 2026 Iran war he threatened military consequences "the likes of which has not been seen in modern history".
His views on race have a long record. In high school he argued that racism was fictitious and that segregation did not exist because the law no longer imposed it. He criticized bilingual education, multicultural activities, and announcements in Spanish at district meetings. Shortly after graduating, he wrote that poor Islamic countries were failing because they refused the values that made America great.
The Atlantic reported that while preparing for a 2024 debate, Miller argued with an ally about immigration. Trump reportedly said, "Stephen... if you had it your way, everyone would look exactly like you." Miller replied, "That's correct."
Public opinion of him is low. As of January 2026, YouGov polling found that only 17% of respondents had a positive impression. The New Republic named him its 2025 Scoundrel of the Year.
In February 2020 Miller married Katie Rose Waldman, press secretary to vice president Mike Pence and a former spokeswoman for Nielsen. The ceremony took place at the Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C., and Trump attended. They met through mutual friends in 2018 and became engaged a year and a half later. They have three children.
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What is Stephen Miller's current role?
Since 2025 he has served as White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security advisor to Donald Trump. He is an unelected advisor, and his positions do not require Senate confirmation.
What did Miller do during the first Trump administration?
From 2017 to 2021 he was senior advisor to the president and director of speechwriting. He supervised the writing of Trump's inaugural and State of the Union addresses and was central to immigration policy, including the family separation policy and the travel ban order.
Who helped Miller start his career in politics?
The conservative writer David Horowitz heard Miller on a talk radio show and later referred him to Michele Bachmann, John Shadegg and Jeff Sessions. Steve Bannon, whom Miller met while working for Sessions, became an enduring ally.
What is America First Legal?
It is a conservative legal advocacy organization that Miller founded in 2021, after Trump lost the 2020 election. He announced it in March and established it the following month.
How has Miller been described by critics and polls?
His politics have been described as far-right, anti-immigration, and white nationalist. The Southern Poverty Law Center added him to its list of extremists in July 2020, and a YouGov poll in January 2026 found only 17% of respondents viewed him positively.
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- 103Before Covid-19, Trump Aide Sought to Use Disease to Close BordersCaitlin Dickerson et al. — May 3, 2020
- 104Trump's Temporary Halt to Immigration Is Part of Broader Plan, Stephen Miller SaysMichael Shear et al. — April 24, 2020
- 105Stephen Miller's hard-line policies on refugee families make a comeback at HHSDan Diamond — April 16, 2020
- 106Meadows learns to navigate Kushner's sprawling White House influenceAnita Kumar — May 10, 2020
- 107White House Races to Contain Virus in Its Ranks: 'It Is Scary to Go to Work'Michael Shear et al. — May 10, 2020
- 108Trump Administration Moves to Solidify Restrictive Immigration PoliciesZolan Kanno-Youngs et al. — June 12, 2020
- 109Trump's Pentagon Chief Quashed Idea to Send 250,000 Troops to the BorderDavid Sanger et al. — October 19, 2021
- 110By Lowering the Debate Bar for Biden, Has Trump Set a Trap for Himself?Annie Karni et al. — September 27, 2020
- 111Stephen Miller, a top Trump aide, tests positive for the virus.Maggie Haberman et al. — October 1, 2020
- 112As Circle of Trump Aides Dwindles, a Few Plan to Stay to the EndAnnie Karni — January 8, 2021
- 113Jan. 6 Panel Presses Stephen Miller on Whether Trump Sought to Incite CrowdMaggie Haberman et al. — April 14, 2022
- 114Under Heavy Pressure, Trump Releases Video Condemning Capitol SiegeMaggie Haberman et al. — January 13, 2021
- 115Trump and Aides Drove Family Separation at Border, Documents SayMichael Shear — January 14, 2021
- 116Court Filing Lists Documents Trump Seeks to Withhold From Jan. 6 InquiryLuke Broadwater — October 30, 2021
- 117Two Top Trump Political Aides Among Those Subpoenaed in Jan. 6 CaseMaggie Haberman et al. — September 9, 2022
- 118NewsAt the Willard and the White House, the Jan. 6 Panel Widens Its NetLuke Broadwater et al. — November 9, 2021
- 119Judge Will Review Lawyer's Emails Sought by Jan. 6 PanelLuke Broadwater — March 9, 2022
- 120Former Trump Officials Must Testify in 2020 Election Inquiry, Judge SaysMaggie Haberman et al. — March 24, 2023
- 121Appeals court rejects Trump's bid to block aides from testifying in Jan. 6 probeKyle Cheney — April 4, 2023
- 122Job Seekers With Trump White House on Their Résumés Face a Cold RealityKatie Rogers — January 29, 2021
- 123Stephen Miller to launch a new legal group to give Biden fitsGabby Orr — March 26, 2021
- 124Stephen Miller's Next Act Finds a Stage in the CourtsBrent Kendall — April 7, 2021
- 125Stephen Miller set to brief House conservativesMeridith McGraw et al. — February 23, 2021
- 126Politico Playbook: What Ron Klain told progressives behind closed doorsRachael Bade et al. — March 18, 2021
- 127Hope Hicks, other Trump alums join hedge-fund exec's Senate campAlex Isenstadt — December 22, 2021
- 128How Kevin McCarthy Forged an Ironclad Bond With Marjorie Taylor GreeneJonathan Swan et al. — January 23, 2023
- 129Some of the Lawyers Who May Fill a Second Trump AdministrationJonathan Swan et al. — November 1, 2023
- 130Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump's 2025 Immigration PlansCharlie Savage et al. — November 11, 2023
- 131Trump Transition Signals Focus on Deportations as Miller Assumes InfluenceMaggie Haberman et al. — November 11, 2024
- 132Stephen Miller set to play major role in next Trump administrationMia McCarthy — November 11, 2024
- 133Trump is stacking his White House with immigration hawksNick Niedzwiadek et al. — November 11, 2024
- 134The Wrath of Stephen MillerAshley Parker, Michael Scherer, Nick Miroff — 2026-01-07
- 135NewsInside Trump's Pressure Campaign on UniversitiesMichael C. Bender et al. — 2025-04-14
- 136NewsHarvard's Decision to Resist Trump Is 'of Momentous Significance'Elisabeth Bumiller — 2025-04-15
- 137How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal BureaucracyJonathan Swan et al. — February 28, 2025
- 138Stephen Miller, Channeling Trump, Has Built More Power Than EverJonathan Swan et al. — January 16, 2025
- 139Trump Appointee Pressed Analyst to Redo Intelligence on Venezuelan GangJulian E. Barnes et al. — May 16, 2025
- 140Inside Trump's Search for a Health Threat to Justify His Immigration CrackdownZolan Kanno-Youngs et al. — January 9, 2025
- 141Behind Trump's Deal to Deport Venezuelans to El Salvador's Most Feared PrisonZolan Kanno-Youngs et al. — April 30, 2025
- 142As White House Steers Justice Dept., Bondi Embraces Role of TV MessengerGlenn Thrush — May 12, 2025
- 143Stephen Miller contradicts DOJ court docs on man mistakenly deportedRebecca Beitsch — April 14, 2025
- 144Trump Officials Consider Suspending Habeas Corpus for Detained MigrantsKaroun Demirjian — May 9, 2025
- 145Stephen Miller, Noem tell ICE to supercharge immigrant arrestsBrittany Gibson et al. — May 28, 2025
- 146DOJ is walking back the White House's goal to arrest 3,000 immigrants per dayKyle Cheney et al. — August 3, 2025
- 147NewsHow Stephen Miller is running Trump's effort to take over D.C.Emily Davies et al. — September 5, 2025
- 148Vance, White House promises to 'go after' left-leaning organizationsIrie Sentner — September 15, 2025
- 149Stephen Miller takes leading role in strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boatsHugo Lowell — September 29, 2025
- 150"Agendas of 3 Trump aides fuel Venezuela campaigns," New York Times (December 29, 2025) p.1.
- 151NewsUS halts plans to sanction Chinese spy agencyDemetri Sevastopulo — December 4, 2025
- 152Trump vs. Congress: Now What?Robert Draper — March 26, 2017
- 153Southern Poverty Law Center Identifies Stephen Miller as an ExtremistBen Sales — Jewish Telegraphic Agency — July 17, 2020
- 154From Obama, Plenty of Drama in a Rare Display at the Democratic ConventionPeter Baker — August 20, 2020
- 155Does Stephen Miller Speak for Trump? Or Vice Versa?Joshua Green — February 28, 2017
- 156Trump, tech tycoons talk overhaul of H1B visasMica Rosenberg et al. — Reuters — January 12, 2017
- 157Stephen Miller's Uncle Calls Him a Hypocrite in an Online EssayMichael Shear — August 13, 2018
- 158Sessions Says Domestic and Gang Violence Are Not Grounds for AsylumKatie Benner et al. — June 11, 2018
- 159Bill to Grant Afghan Evacuees a Path to Residency Hits SnagsLuke Broadwater — September 22, 2022
- 160Miller goes to bat for Trump over emergency declarationQuint Forgey — February 17, 2019
- 161Trump Signals Even Fiercer Immigration Agenda, With a Possible Return of Family SeparationsMichael Shear et al. — April 8, 2019
- 163White House's Miller blames Democrats for border crisisTed Hesson — May 29, 2018
- 164NewsTop Trump aide claims Biden would encourage child trafficking, echoing baseless QAnon conspiracyAlex Woodward — October 29, 2020
- 165Stephen Miller attacks Biden's immigration plan in first tweetBen Leonard — January 20, 2021
- 166Biden Announces Major Crackdown on Illegal Border CrossingsMichael Shear et al. — January 5, 2023
- 167Biden Faces Competing Pressures as He Tries to Ease the Migrant CrisisMichael Shear et al. — September 21, 2023
- 168NewsStephen Miller Cites Children of Immigrants as a ProblemHamed Aleaziz — December 23, 2025
- 169NewsStephen Miller's Viral Minneapolis Shooting Tweet Debunked by Community NoteStephanie Kaloi — January 24, 2026
- 171Trump Proposed Launching Missiles Into Mexico to 'Destroy the Drug Labs,' Esper SaysMaggie Haberman — May 5, 2022
- 172Stephen Miller dismisses whistleblower as a partisan 'saboteur'Sarah Cammarata — September 29, 2019
- 173The G.O.P. Push for Post-Verdict Payback: 'Fight Fire With Fire'Jonathan Swan et al. — June 5, 2024
- 174A guilty verdict for his son is likely to weigh heavily on President Biden.Katie Rogers — June 11, 2024
- 175NewsDoes the US have any real claim on Venezuelan oil as Stephen Miller says?Sarah Shamim — December 18, 2025
- 176New Hampshire fires back after White House's false voting fraud claimsAidan Quigley — February 13, 2017
- 177No, Republican attempts to organize 'alternate' electors won't affect the official Electoral College tally.Aishvarya Kavi — December 14, 2020
- 178NewsTrump aide accuses India of financing Russia's war in UkraineAugust 4, 2025
- 179Trump has managed another Republican makeover since Kirk's assassination, this time on free speechBill Barrow et al. — Associated Press — September 22, 2025
- 180Suspect in fatal N.C. train stabbing of Ukrainian refugee is charged with federal crimeMichael Kosnar et al. — NBC News — September 9, 2025
- 183NewsEuropean leaders rally behind Greenland as US ramps up threats2026-01-06
- 187Travel ban architect writing Trump's speech on Islam CNN PoliticsDan Merica — 2017-05-19
- 189The Words That Are In and Out With the Biden AdministrationMichael Shear — February 24, 2021
- 193NewsABC News suspends journalist who called Trump and adviser 'world-class' hatersEdward Helmore — 2025-06-08
- 196NewsKatie Waldman and Stephen Miller Wed at Trump HotelMarch 2, 2020
- 197Trump attends wedding of Stephen MillerRishika Dugyala — February 16, 2020
- 198NewsKatie Miller Welcomes Fourth Baby with Husband Stephen Miller, an Influential Trump AdviserRachel Raposas — June 10, 2026
- 199BookHatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist AgendaJean Guerrero — William Morrow — 2020
- 200BookTerrorism and the Arts: Practices and Critiques in Contemporary Cultural ProductionRoutledge — 2021
- 201BookBorder Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on ImmigrationJulie Davis et al. — Simon & Schuster — 2019b
- 202BookInjustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice DepartmentCarol Leonnig et al. — Penguin Press — 2025
- 203BookWhite Supremacy and the American MediaRoutledge — 2021
- 204BookHandbook of Migration and Global JusticeEdward Elgar Publishing — 2021
- 205JournalImmigration policy in the second Trump administration: Restriction, removal, and the limits of MAGA nativismCaroline Nagel — 2025
- 206JournalThe Trump administration, the far-right and world politicsInderjeet Parmar et al. — 2023
- 207Journal'Improbable Spectacles': White Supremacy, Christian Hegemony, and the Dark Side of the JudenfrageBen Ratskoff — 2020