First they put away the dealers, keep our kids safe and off the street. Then they put away the prostitutes, keep married men cloistered at home.
Then they shooed away the bums, then they beat and bashed the queers, turned away asylum-seekers, fed us suspicions and fears. We didn’t raise our voice, we didn’t make a fuss. It’s funny there was no one left to notice when they came for us.
Looks like witches are in season, you better fly your flag and be aware of anyone who might fit the description, diversity is now our biggest fear.
Now with our conversations tapped and our differences exposed, how ya supposed to love your neighbor with our minds and curtains closed? We used to worry ’bout big brother, now we got a big father and an even bigger mother.
And you still believe this aristocracy gives a fuck about you. They put the mock in democracy and you swallowed every hook.
The sad truth is you’d rather follow the school into the net ’cause swimming alone at sea is not the kind of freedom that you actually want.
So go back to your crib and suck on a tit go bask in the warmth of your diaper. You’re sitting in shit and piss while sucking a giant pacifier, a country of adult infants. A legion of mental midgets, a country of adult infants, a country of adult infants. all regaining their unconsciousness
Russell Thurlow Vought (IPA: /voʊt/VOHT, born March 26, 1976) is an American government official and conservative political analyst who has served as the 44th director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) since February 2025. Vought previously served as Director of the OMB in the first Trump administration from July 2020 to January 2021, and served as Deputy Director of the OMB from March 2018 to July 2020.
During the confirmation hearings, Senator Bernie Sanders questioned Vought about a statement that “Muslims do not simply have a deficient theology. They do not know God because they have rejected Jesus Christ his Son, and they stand condemned.”[15][16] Various Christian organizations denounced Sanders’s questioning as a violation of the No Religious Test Clause, and Emma Green of The Atlantic wrote that Sanders’ questioning “flirted with the boundaries” of the No Religious Test Clause.[16][17]
In 2019, Vought was one of nine government officials who defied a subpoena to testify before Congress in relation to the Trump–Ukraine scandal and the administration’s decision to freeze military aid to Ukraine. The decision to freeze aid to Ukraine had led Democrats to launch the first impeachment of Donald Trump.[18][19]
OMB Director
Vought being sworn in as OMB Director in July 2020
On January 2, 2019, following OMB director Mick Mulvaney becoming the White House chief of staff, Vought became the acting OMB director, though Mulvaney retained the director position.[20][21] On March 18, 2020, President Trump announced his intent to nominate Vought to serve as permanent OMB Director.[22] Vought was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 20, 2020, by a vote of 51–45.[23] Vought was sworn in on July 22, 2020.[24]
On September 4, 2020, Vought, at President Trump’s direction, published an OMB memo instructing federal agencies to stop all training on “critical race theory” or “white privilege”, along with “any other training or propaganda effort that teaches or suggests either (1) that the United States is an inherently racist or evil country or (2) that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil”. The memo further directed that agencies begin to identify legal avenues to cancel contracts or otherwise divert the “millions of taxpayer dollars” being spent on such training, which it said “engenders division and resentment within the federal workforce.”[25][26][27]
2020 presidential election
After Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election and Trump alleged that the election had been stolen, Biden’s transition team accused Vought of hindering the presidential transition by refusing to allow incoming Biden officials to meet with OMB staff. Typically, career OMB staff would provide an incoming administration with cost estimates and details on existing programs.[28] Vought defended his actions, stating that OMB had provided funding for the transition and that there had been more than 45 meetings with Biden officials but that “OMB staff are working on this administration’s policies and will do so until this administration’s final day in office”.[29][30]
U.S. Naval Academy
In December 2020, Donald Trump appointed Vought to the Board of Visitors of the United States Naval Academy. Joe Biden fired Vought and ten other Trump political appointees to the boards of service academies and other oversight bodies in September 2021. Vought and Sean Spicer (appointed by Trump to the Naval board in 2019 and likewise fired by Biden) sued to prevent their removal, arguing that their appointments were to three-year terms.[31] In July 2022 federal judge Dabney Friedrich dismissed the suit.[32]
Between the Trump administrations (2021–2025)
Center for Renewing America
In January 2021, Vought founded an organization called the Center for Renewing America (CRA), which is focused on combating critical race theory. CRA has an affiliated issue advocacy group, American Restoration Action.[33] The mission of the groups is to “renew a consensus of America as a nation under God”.[1] According to Axios, the groups “will provide the ideological ammunition to sustain Trump’s political movement after his departure from the White House.”[34]
In April 2021, The Washington Post fact-checker rated Vought’s statement that only 5 to 7 percent of the Biden administration’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan would go to “actual roads and bridges and ports and things that you and I would say is real infrastructure” as inaccurate to the degree of “Three Pinocchios” out of four.[35]
On June 8, 2021, Citizens for Renewing America, the advocacy arm of Center for Renewing America, released a guide to “combatting critical race theory.”[36] Vought told Fox News the 33-page handbook is “a crash course in CRT, a ‘one-stop shopping’ for parents trying to hold their school board members accountable.”[37]
In October 2024, ProPublica reported on speeches Vought had made at Center for Renewing America events. According to the report, Vought’s proposals included plans to reshape government by using military force against protesters if deemed necessary, to defund agencies such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the purpose of reducing federal influence, and to cast civil servants as obstructive to conservative agendas. Vought stated that he wanted to put the federal workforce “in trauma” and not go to work “because they are increasingly viewed as the villains”.[39]
The main Project 2025 document, published April 21, 2023[40]
Dark money contributions from a network of fundraising groups were received by nearly half of the organizations collaborating in the project.[47] The project seeks to infuse the government and society with Christian values.[48][49]
The Centre for Climate Reporting published an interview with Vought with two of its journalists posing as relatives of a potential donor in August 2024. In the video, Vought stated that his Center for Renewing America group had drafted over 350 executive orders, regulations, and memos for the second Trump administration. He described his work as creating shadow agencies”. He called for banning pornography, acknowledging that an outright ban would be unpopular with the public, and instead supporting laws that would make pornography websites legally liable if used by minors.[50] He also stated the president is not bound by the Posse Comitatus Act, which prevents federal troops from conducting civilian law enforcement. Vought summed up his core political ideology as “Christian nationalism”.[51]
On November 23, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would renominate Vought as director of the OMB for his second term as president.[53] Vought appeared before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on January 15, 2025. During his confirmation hearing, Vought did not commit to spend all the money assigned by the Congress to the federal government.[54] The committee advanced his nomination in an 8–7 vote on January 20, 2025.[55] He later appeared before the Senate Budget Committee on January 22, 2025.[56] The committee approved his nomination in an 11–0 vote (with all 9 Democrats and 1 Independent boycotting the committee vote due to January 2025 federal spending freeze).[57] The U.S. Senate confirmed Vought’s nomination on February 6, 2025 with a 53–47 vote.[58]
Tenure
On February 7, 2025, Vought was sworn in by United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Upon taking office as OMB Director, Vought was also installed as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.[59] In his first month at the CFPB, the CFPB dropped at least a half dozen cases brought by Vought’s predecessor, Rohit Chopra.[60] In May 2025, the CFPB rescinded a rule that limited the ability of data brokers to sell sensitive information, such as financial data, credit history, and Social Security numbers.[61]
On June 25, 2025, Vought told a Senate committee that the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a global anti-AIDS initiative, had spent $9.3 million funding abortions and “gender analysis” in Russia, a claim which The New York Times found to be false. On July 15, 2025, Vought said that the White House was on board with an amendment that would exempt the PEPFAR from budget cuts.[62] A $400 million proposed cut to PEPFAR was subsequently removed from the rescission package by Senate Republicans.[63][64][65]
Political and religious positions
Vought graduated from the evangelical Christian Wheaton College and describes himself as a Christian nationalist.[1] He seeks to infuse the government and society with elements of Christianity, saying he has “a commitment to an institutional separation between church and state, but not the separation of Christianity from its influence on government and society”, according to The Washington Post.[66] In a secretly recorded meeting in 2024, Vought said that conservatives should discuss whether to prioritize Christian immigrants over those of other religions.[51] Vought supports a total ban on abortion. He has called the Democratic Party “increasingly evil” for supporting secularism.[1]
In 2022,[67] Vought began advocating for “radical constitutionalism” to reverse a current “post-Constitutional time”; he says this has been the result of a century of corruption of laws and institutions by the political left. He characterizes the federal bureaucracy as “woke and weaponized” and advocates replacing it with “radical constitutionalists”.[1][66] Vought proposes to “gut the FBI” and end the tradition of political independence of the U.S. Justice Department.[66][48]
He has stated in Project 2025 that his final goal is to “bend or break the bureaucracy to the presidential will” and use it to send power from Washington D.C back to America’s families, churches, local governments and states.[68] He has said that he wants to “traumatize” federal employees.[69]
Personal life
Vought was formerly married to Mary Grace Vought, with whom he has two daughters. Mary filed for divorce on August 4, 2023 and the divorce was finalized on August 30 in Arlington County, Virginia.[70][71]
In November 2024, Trump named Miller as his deputy chief of staff for policy and his homeland security advisor. He is the youngest person and the first millennial to serve as homeland security advisor. In Trump’s second term, Miller emerged as one of the most powerful Trump administration officials and a key author of numerous policies.
Stephen N. Miller[1] was born on August 23, 1985,[2] in the North of Montana neighborhood in Santa Monica, California.[3] Miller was the second of three children[4] to Michael and Miriam (née Glosser) Miller.[5][a] Michael was a lawyer and real estate investor, while Miriam was a social worker.[7] They were New Deal Democrats.[8] Miller is of Eastern European Jewish descent through his mother and father, who were grandchildren of Jews who escaped persecution;[5] his maternal great-great-grandfather, Wolf Glosser, was born in Antopal, Belarus, and immigrated to the United States in 1903 amid pogroms in the Russian Empire that began following the assassination of Alexander II.[7] Wolf—who changed his name to Louis upon arriving in Ellis Island—and his son, Nathan, founded Glosser Brothers in 1906 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.[9] Michael’s father’s business, Cordary, began experiencing cash flow problems in 1992 as litigation filed by Michael against his former law firm mounted and the United States entered a recession. Additionally, several Cordary properties were affected by the 1994 Northridge earthquake.[10] The Millers sold their home in North of Montana in 1998, purchasing a smaller home south of Interstate 10.[11] Miller went to Hebrew school at Beth Shir Shalom, where classmates identified him as a contrarian.[8] Miriam’s brother, the neuropsychologist David S. Glosser, wrote an article in Politico Magazine in August 2018 accusing Miller of hypocrisy for his anti-immigration stance.[12]
Miller attended Franklin Elementary School, where he was described by a former teacher as “off by himself all the time”,[13] and Lincoln Middle School.[14] In 1999, he began attending Santa Monica High School.[15] Miller opposed his high school’s chapter of the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán and was said to have taunted immigrants by the chapter’s founder; he reportedly insisted to other students and teachers that they speak English. Miller called into The Larry Elder Show (1993–2008; 2010–2014) and successfully brought the eponymous host, Larry Elder, to his high school.[16] He later appeared after the September 11 attacks to describe an incident in which a Canadian teacher placed the flag of the United States on the floor and discussed its importance, though Miller alleged that the teacher had dragged the flag across the floor and trampled over it. Miller appeared on The Larry Elder Show sixty-nine times, according to an estimate he gave to Elder, and asked Elder for an internship. Elder later told the journalist Jean Guerrero in 2019 that Miller was “full of energy and passion”.[17] He was confirmed at The Santa Monica Synagogue, a Reform temple.[8]
At Santa Monica, Miller garnered attention, having been lampooned in an April Fools’ Day issue of the school newspaper, The Samohi. In 2002, he ran for student announcer, giving a speech in which he questioned being told to pick up trash when the school hired custodians; the student body disapproved of Miller’s comments and he lost to a German immigrant. Miller’s appearances on The Larry Elder Show were heard by the conservative writer David Horowitz, who Miller controversially asked to appear at Santa Monica.[18] In an article on Horowitz’s website, FrontPage Magazine, Miller called for Santa Monica to institute the Pledge of Allegiance, a demand the school complied with, and for the school’s culture to embrace “inclusive patriotism”, in contrast to multiculturalism. Santa Monica’s principal and its district superintendent blamed Miller for having caused a tax increase initiative to fail. According to Miller’s article, the principal distributed a memorandum to teachers, ordering them to discuss the Iraq War in a neutral and balanced manner.[19] Miller was involved in the school’s band program, tennis, religious studies, and political and youth groups.[20]
Miller began attending Duke University in 2003[20] to study political science.[21] There, he was nicknamed “Guns” for introducing himself on the East Campus with, “I’m from Santa Monica, California—and I like guns.” He was involved in a relationship with a Mexican-American woman pseudonymously referred to as “Yovana” in Guerrero’s book Hatemonger (2020). Yovana, who espoused conservative views, left Duke at the end of their freshman year. In 2004, outraged at Duke’s decision to schedule a Palestine Solidarity Movement conference, Miller founded the university’s chapter of Horowitz’s Students for Academic Freedom and rallied students to oppose the conference.[22] The following year, he was the author of a column in The Chronicle, Duke’s student newspaper, titled “Miller Time”. Miller continued to critique multiculturalism. His combative debate strategy, particularly in his column, earned Miller a pugnacious reputation.[23] Miller invited Horowitz to speak at Duke, who in turn named Miller to lead the Terrorism Awareness Project, an initiative that conflated Muslims and Arabs with terrorists. Miller appeared on Fox & Friends (1998–present) to promote the effort.[24]
In the aftermath of the Duke lacrosse rape hoax, Miller defended the three members of the Duke Blue Devils men’s lacrosse team who were accused of rape, finding that they had been presumed guilty for being white males. He appeared on Nancy Grace (2005–2016) to further advocate for the lacrosse players.[25] After reports emerged that the accuser, Crystal Mangum, had concealed the results of a negative DNA test, Miller continued to discuss the issue, condemning an advertisement that noted the persistent fear of students “who know themselves to be objects of racism and sexism” in an interview with Bill O’Reilly on The O’Reilly Factor (1996–2017).[26] By junior year, Miller had joined the Duke Conservative Union. He had become the organization’s executive director by the beginning of his senior year, a position that allowed him to fundraise.[27] Miller, fixated on establishing a memorial for the September 11 attacks, forgot to take his LSAT to go to law school.[21] Through the Duke Conservative Union, Miller met and subsequently praised Richard B. Spencer, who later became known as a white supremacist. The two organized an immigration debate in March 2007.[28]
Career
Congressional work (2007–2016)
After graduating from Duke University, Miller traveled across Eurasia, including embarking on a Birthright Israel trip.[29] Through David Horowitz,[30] Miller began working for Minnesota representative Michele Bachmann by December 2007[31] as her press secretary.[30] He moved to Washington, D.C., where his family had assisted him in purchasing a US$450,000 condominium.[30] By 2009, Miller—and independently Horowitz—had become disillusioned with Bachmann. Horowitz referred Miller to Arizona representative John Shadegg. Miller participated in Tea Party protests against Barack Obama with Shadegg. In June 2009, Miller began working for Alabama senator Jeff Sessions as his press secretary after Horowitz recommended him.[32] Miller sought to legitimize his criticisms of immigration and garner a larger audience; he formed relationships with anti-immigration organizations, including the Center for Immigration Studies, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, and NumbersUSA.[33] Miller became Session’s communications manager by August 2014.[21] That year, he purchased a US$1 million condominium in CityCenterDC with the assistance of his parents.[34]
As a communications aide to Sessions, Miller worked to influence the editorial coverage of Breitbart News. He sent editors links to the far-right website VDARE and the white-supremacist online-only magazine American Renaissance;[35] Horowitz attributed Miller’s discovery of American Renaissance to his profile of Jared Taylor.[35] Miller’s efforts legitimized Breitbart‘s language in Congress[36] and influenced The Daily Caller‘s immigration coverage.[37] Miller, joined by Sessions, mounted a successful campaign to disparage the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, an immigration reform bill proposed by four Democratic senators and four Republican senators known as the Gang of Eight. The bill passed in the Democratic-controlled Senate, but was not considered in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives after Miller brought House staffers a binder with talking points and research he had conducted.[38] Miller assisted Dave Brat in mounting a primary challenge to defeat Virginia representative Eric Cantor, who was serving as House majority leader at the time.[21] In January 2015, Miller and Sessions authored Immigration Handbook for the New Republican Majority, a rebuttal to the Republican Party’s post-mortem after Mitt Romney‘s loss in the 2012 presidential election.[39]
In November 2019, the Southern Poverty Law Center published a summary of approximately nine hundred emails from Miller that were sent to Breitbart News from March 2015 to June 2016. The emails were provided by Katie McHugh, a former editor at the website. Correspondences between Miller and McHugh show a shared concern that Mexican survivors of Hurricane Patricia could be granted temporary protected status—an exchange in which Miller included a link to VDARE, and that e-commerce websites had removed Confederate merchandise in the aftermath of the Charleston church shooting—an article that appeared later on Breitbart. Miller urged Breitbart editors to read The Camp of the Saints (1973), a novel that depicts the destruction of Western civilization through mass immigration; days later, Julia Hahn reviewed the book for the website.[40] Kurt Bardella, a former spokesman for Breitbart, descirbed Miller as “almost a de facto assignment editor”. The Southern Poverty Law Center later obtained additional emails in which Miller linked an article from a think tank about an apparent increase in the number of newborns named “Mohammed”, a story that appeared on Breitbart the following day, and an email in which Miller praised the work of the anti-immigration commentator Jason Richwine.[41] Miller additionally sought to disparage Florida senator Marco Rubio.[42]
In June 2015, the businessman Donald Trump declared his candidacy in the 2016 presidential election.[43] Trump’s views on race interested Miller;[44] in an interview with Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear for Border Wars (2019), Miller felt that Trump “doubled down, breaking that apology-retreat cycle” and giving confidence to a customarily dissatisfied populous.[45] Miller was particularly invested in defeating Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants and a member of the Gang of Eight who was running for president. Breitbart News‘s Matthew Boyle referred Miller to Sam Nunberg, a political consultant working for the Trump campaign. Despite a recommendation from Sessions, Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s campaign manager, was reluctant to hire Miller. Nonetheless, Miller contributed to Trump’s campaign without its support. He prepared Trump’s immigration policies.[46]
On January 25, 2016, Miller joined Donald Trump‘s presidential campaign as a senior policy advisor.[47] He began writing speeches for Trump at Steve Bannon‘s behest[39] and with encouragement from Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.[48] Miller intensified Trump’s language, including by embedding the term “radical Islam” into his speeches.[49] At Miller’s behest, Sessions endorsed Trump in February, becoming the first senator to do so;[50]Politico wrote that the endorsement was damaging to Texas senator Ted Cruz, who had declared his candidacy on a platform intended to attract voters who identified with the Tea Party movement and evangelical beliefs, and legitimized Trump’s campaign.[51] Miller’s interview with the Breitbart News Daily (2015–present) host Brandon Darby the following month influenced the National Border Patrol Council‘s decision to endorse Trump.[52]
By March, Miller’s role had included serving as an opening act for Trump at rallies.[21] He wrote Trump’s acceptance speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention[53] and served as the campaign’s policy liaison to the convention.[21] Miller assisted Trump in preparing for debates with Hillary Clinton.[54] After the convention, the campaign switched to a teleprompter and elevated Miller to Trump’s principal speechwriter.[55] By August, he had become Trump’s national policy director. That month, Miller was appointed to lead an economic team.[56]Politico described Miller as an “instrumental advisor for Trump on the issue” of immigration.[57] His influence in writing speeches amplified after Trump was convinced by Bannon to read from speeches written by him and Miller.[58] After Trump won the 2016 election, Miller retained his role as national policy director for the transition.[59] He lead much of the policy work to prepare for Trump’s first one hundred days.[60] Trump designated Miller to write his inaugural address.[61]
Senior Advisor and White House Director of Speechwriting (2017–2021)
Miller (gray suit) observing Trump sign an executive order in January 2017.
In February, The New York Times reported that Trump had urged Priebus to implement conventional protocols, including limiting Bannon and Miller’s unfettered access, after reports that other Trump officials were not briefed about the travel ban order until it had already been signed.[71] Miller wrote Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress that month.[72] He sought to purge the federal government of Barack Obama‘s political appointees.[73] The dynamics of Miller’s influence in the Trump administration shifted by April as Bannon entered into conflict with Jared Kushner; Miller informed colleagues that he was not affiliated with Bannon. That month, he began to work with Office of American Innovation, led by Kushner, and began focusing on energy and regulatory issues.[74] Miller remained an ally of Bannon.[75]
In September, Trump announced a gradual end to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,[87] a move that Miller had encouraged Trump to take for months.[88] That month, The New York Times reported that Miller had been advocating for adjusting the refugee quota established in the Refugee Act from 110,000—set by Obama before he left office—to 15,000.[89] Though Trump later stated he would work with Democrats on a deal to restore Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and he planned to set the quota at 45,000 refugees, Miller’s efforts had an impact on immigration policy.[90] He outlined several hard-line immigration proposals, including hiring ten thousand immigration enforcement agents, in a draft that month, after Trump had reached a tentative agreement with Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and House minority leader Nancy Pelosi on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.[91]
In January 2018, as a federal government shutdown neared over disputes involving Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Trump privately stated that he was willing to negotiate to extend legal status to immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children; in response, Kelly and Miller rejected a deal unless it was attached to austere immigration restrictions.[92] Republican negotiators accused Miller of preventing a deal from being struck.[93] Miller wrote that year’s State of the Union Address.[94] He advocated for a veto of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, a bill that would fund that fiscal year, over funds for the Trump wall, pointing to the possibility of a Republican loss in that year’s elections.[95] Miller worked against the Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration.[96] After Kelly Sadler was dismissed over comments she made about the political viability and mortality Arizona senator John McCain—who was suffering from brain cancer—Miller had Julia Hahn appointed to cover her communications work in order to advance Trump’s hardline immigration messaging.[97] Miller sought to garner support for a bill paralleling his immigration framework in June.[98]
Miller was an advocate for the Trump administration’s family separation policy.[99] In April, he was “instrumental” in Trump’s decision to intensify enforcement of the policy, according to The New York Times. Miller was critical to Trump’s endorsement of the family separation policy.[100] The policy incited controversy, including an internal conflict,[101] targeted towards Miller in June.[102] Amid the backlash, Miller continued to lead a plan to use executive authority and rule changes to institute an immigration crackdown ahead of that year’s elections, believing immigration to be a key issue.[103] He conducted meetings privately, in fear of “hostile bureaucrats” leaking policies, according to Politico.[104] That month, the Supreme Court affirmed the Muslim travel ban; chief justice John Roberts supported Miller’s 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” through any necessary means.[105] In an effort to quell outcry, Trump signed an executive order ending the practice of family separation.[106]
According to the Financial Times, Miller sought to ban student visas for Chinese nationals, but his efforts were halted by Terry Branstad, the ambassador to China.[107] In August, The New York Times reported that the Trump administration was considering a second reduction in the refugee quota. The Times noted that opponents of Miller—including Tillerson and Duke—had been ousted in favor of anti-immigrant officials, giving Miller’s plan a greater chance of success.[108] He privately urged Trump to continue on his border wall.[109] In September, secretary of state Mike Pompeo announced that the quota would be set at 30,000.[110] That month, the Department of Homeland Security proposed a rule denying lawful permanent residency to immigrants who have received government benefits, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Medicare, and Section 8.[111] The volume of immigration actions the following month—the deployment of federal troops to the Mexico–United States border and proposed executive action on blocking the Central American migrant caravans and ending birthright citizenship—was described a Republican close to the White House as “a dream come true” for Miller.[112]
As a second federal government shutdown in December 2018 neared over funding the Trump wall, Miller publicly stated that the Trump administration would “do whatever is necessary” to build the border wall, including shutting down the government.[113] In a meeting to resolve the shutdown, Kushner defended Miller as an expert on the subject of immigration,[114] though Kushner’s support for legal immigration led to a conflict with Miller.[115] Miller’s influence with Trump led to concerns from senior Republican aides that he could convince Trump that accepting a compromise would amount to humiliation.[116] Trump worked on the that year’s State of the Union address with Miller, who sought to reassert himself on a speech that involved immigration.[117]
Miller opposed Ronald Vitiello‘s nomination as director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement[118] and Nielsen’s tenure as secretary of homeland security;[119] Trump withdrew Vitiello as his nominee[118] and Nielsen was ousted within a two-day timespan in April.[119] The departures, including Randolph Alles as director of Secret Service, continued in the following days in a mass purge across the Department of Homeland Security, in what The New York Times described as a signal of Miller’s “enduring influence”.[120] Miller leveraged the uncertainty to pursue an aggressive immigration policy, pressuring mid-level officials at federal departments and agencies to be more vigorous in halting immigration.[121] He pushed for the purge to continue and for several immigration policies, including housing migrants in sanctuary cities and extending detention times, to be implemented.[122] The purge led to concerns about Miller’s authority from congressional Republicans, including Texas senator John Cornyn.[123] According to The New York Times, Miller orchestrated the purge.[124]Kevin McAleenan, the acting secretary of homeland security, resisted Miller’s continued efforts to dismiss officials.[125] Miller was influential in Trump’s decision to name Ken Cuccinelli as the acting director of Citizenship and Immigration Services.[126]
Miller advocated for the Department of Housing and Urban Development to force the eviction of undocumented immigrants.[127] In June, Trump imposed tariffs on Mexico over the border crisis, a suggestion that had been offered by Miller and Peter Navarro, the director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy.[128] The following month, Citizenship and Immigration Services issued a regulation favoring wealthier immigrants for lawful permanent residency, an initiative Miller had led.[129] In September, Miller sought to further reduce the refugee quota.[130] In December, he developed a plan to use information the Department of Health and Human Services had on migrant children to target them and their families for deportation. The plan would have also embedded immigration enforcement agents in the department’s Office of Refugee Resettlement. The effort was rejected by officials at the Department of Health and Human Services.[131]
Miller led speechwriting for the 2020 State of the Union Address, though he sought to temper his influence on its tone.[132] In February, he married Katie Rose Waldman, the press secretary to vice president Mike Pence and a former spokeswoman for Nielsen, at the Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C..[133] Trump attended their wedding.[134] Miller and Waldman met through mutual friends in 2018 and engaged a year-and-a-half later.[133] They have three children together.[135] The COVID-19 pandemic provided opportunities for Miller to advance his immigration policies. The foundation for Miller’s actions came in prior attempts to use the president’s authority in relatively minor health emergencies.[136] In April, Trump suspended family-based immigration. Miller told conservative allies in a private conference call that the halt to immigration was one step in a broader plan.[137] Miller’s efforts at the Department of Health and Human Services returned with a more amenable response.[138]
In May, chief of staff Mark Meadows suggested that Miller should serve as the acting director of the Domestic Policy Council after Joe Grogan‘s resignation, though Kushner successfully proposed Derek Lyons instead.[139] After Katie tested positive for COVID-19 that month, Miller was forced to quarantine.[140] He continued to push for changes to immigration policy to follow up on Trump’s order in April, raising the standard of proof for asylum seekers.[141] According to secretary of defense Mark Esper, he reportedly called for as many as a quarter of a million troops to be stationed at the border with Mexico.[142] Miller participated in debate preparation sessions against Joe Biden.[143] In October, Miller was among those who tested positive for COVID-19 amid an outbreak of the virus at the White House.[144] Miller remained with Trump after the January 6 Capitol attack;[145] he wrote the speech Trump gave preceding the attack.[146] Miller contributed to Trump’s speech condemning the attack after his second impeachment.[147] In the final days of Trump’s term, Miller continued to work to implement Trump’s immigration policies.[148]
Post-government activities (2021–2024)
Investigations into Donald Trump
In November 2021, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol subpoeaned Miller, citing his false claims of fraud and his role in the Trump fake electors plot.[149] Miller filed a lawsuit to block the committee from accessing his phone records in March 2022, arguing that the subpoena would invade on his parent’s privacy since he was on their family plan.[150] The following month, he privately testified before the committee over the speech Trump gave preceding the attack. Representatives pressed Miller on the use of the word “we” in potentially inciting the mob.[146]
White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Homeland Security Advisor (2025–present)
On November 11, 2024, CNN reported that president-elect Donald Trump was expected to name Miller as his White House deputy chief of staff for policy.[164] Trump’s selection was confirmed by vice president-elect JD Vance on X hours later.[165] On November 13, Trump publicly announced that Miller would serve as his deputy chief of staff for policy and his homeland security advisor.[166] Although his role was muted, Miller was expected to have significant influence over agency heads.[167] He began educating Elon Musk on the federal bureaucracy;[168] the two men had found a common cause in describing undocumented immigrants as a threat to Western civilization.[169]
According to Illinois senator Dick Durbin, Miller pressured acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove to act more vigorously in dismissing officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, citing the bureau’s nominal director, Kash Patel.[174] Defying prior assertions in court papers, Miller told reporters in April 2025 that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national, was not mistakenly deported.[175] The following month, he stated that the Trump administration was considering suspending habeas corpus for immigrants.[176]
Miller is an opponent of illegal immigration. He has argued that documented and undocumented immigrants have expanded the U.S. labor market, leading to reduced wages.[185] In January 2017, Miller privately proposed eliminating the lottery process for H-1B visas in favor of a system that would give preference to visa petitions for high-salary jobs.[186] As a communications aide to Jeff Sessions, he opposed Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals as “mass backdoor amnesty”.[187] Miller is a proponent of stricter asylum rules,[188] telling Fox News that Afghan refugees fleeing the country after the 2021 Taliban offensive would bring chaos to the United States.[189] He defended Trump’s decision to declare the National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States as sanctioned by the National Emergencies Act.[190] Miller supported a choice model for the family separation policy in which families would be forced to decide whether they would willingly separate their children or waive their child’s humanitarian protections, enjoining them in detention.[191]
In May 2018, Miller blamed Democrats for the Mexico–United States border crisis.[192] Speaking in his “personal capacity”, Miller described president Joe Biden as a “radical outlier in the whole of human civilization” over his immigration policy in October 2020.[193] In his first tweet, hours after Biden’s inauguration, Miller criticized Biden for what he describe as “opening travel from terror hot spots, proposing a giant amnesty, [and] halting the installation of security barriers along the Southwest border”.[194] In January 2023, after Biden announced that he was moving to institute a major crackdown on immigration, Miller alleged that the president was seeking to “increase the foreign-born population of the United States as speedily as possible”.[195] Miller repeated his sentiment after Biden extended temporary protected status to Venezuelans in September.[196]
Foreign and domestic affairs
After the September 11 attacks, Miller wrote that he relished “the thought of watching Osama Bin Laden being riddled to death with bullets.” In 2003, he told classmates on a bus that he supported cutting off the fingers of “Saddam Hussein and his henchmen.”[197] In A Sacred Oath (2022), secretary of defense Mark Esper alleged that, in a Situation Room meeting convened over an operation to kill Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the founder and first leader of the Islamic State, Miller suggested taking Baghdadi’s head, dipping it in pig’s blood, and parading it around to warn other terrorists. Miller denied giving those remarks and referred to Esper as a “moron”.[198]
Miller decried his high school for offering condoms to students—describing sex between minors as strictly statutory rape—and for allowing a club for homosexual students.[21] In “Miller Time” for Duke University‘s student newspaper, The Chronicle, Miller defended the death penalty for rapists and child abusers, argued that women earn less than men because men take harder jobs, criticized “unrelenting health fascists” for lying about the health effects of tobacco, stated that Hollywood was a leftist “propaganda machine”—citing films such as Brokeback Mountain (2005), and espoused concern over an apparent war on Christmas.[199]
Miller referred to the whistleblower who revealed the call between Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Trump that led to a scandal and Trump’s impeachment as a partisan “saboteur”.[200] After Trump was found guilty in a criminal trial involving his concealment of payments made to the pornographic actress Stormy Daniels, Miller urged Republican district attorneys to initiate “every investigation they need to” and Republicans on congressional committees to leverage their “subpoena power in every way” possible to defeat “Marxism and beat these Communists.”[201] After Biden’s son, Hunter, was convicted on firearm charges, Miller alleged that Hunter had not been charged with failing to register as a foreign agent, in reference to the Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory, because it would implicate his father.[202]
Miller has alleged that voter fraud occurred in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. In February 2017, he told George Stephanopoulos on ABC News that voters had been bussed into New Hampshire, a claim rejected by state political figures and officials.[203] After Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, Miller appeared on Fox News to argue that an “alternate slate of electors” could ensure Trump’s victory, a legally impermissible maneuver.[204]
Race and culture issues
In high school, Miller argued that racism was fictitious and that racial segregation did not exist because it was not legally imposed, owing to the civil rights movement. In strategic plan meetings at his high school district, he decried bilingual education, multicultural activities, and announcements in Spanish.[205] written shortly after graduating high school, Miller praised American exceptionalism for abolishing slavery in ninety years.[21] He also wrote that impoverished Islamic countries were “poor and failing” because “they have refused to embrace the values that make our country great”. In an AP United States Government and Politics class, he justified the Trail of Tears.[206] Writing for a Christian publication, he defended the conservative politician William Bennett after he gave comments that suggested that aborting every African American, while immoral, would reduce the crime rate. He described a freshman orientation speech delivered by the poet Maya Angelou as “racial paranoia” and rife with unoriginal “multicultural clichés”.[207]
In writing speeches for Trump, Miller marked a shift in language that included terms such as “radical Islamic terrorism”, a phrase alleged by critics to insinuate that all Muslims are terrorists. In an interview with The New York Times in February 2021, he criticized Joe Biden’s lexicon for being politically correct, specifically noting that critics of the term “equity” would deride it as discrimination.[208]
A few hours ago the Flotilla left Barcelona again and are in international waters…
The flotilla is finally entering international waters tonight after bad weather forced the mission to turn back.
These are not military ships. Some boats only carry six people. Many are old fishing trawlers, rusty recreational yachts, all secondhand, some donated. This is the equipment for a 2,500 km voyage across the Mediterranean.
When you plan a journey like this, you don’t look at the biggest boats in the fleet. You think about the smallest. That’s why the decision was made overnight to hold back in Barcelona.
Now they sail again. Once in international waters, there will be a huge sigh of relief. Because the greatest threat to this mission is not the sea or even the Israeli navy—it’s bureaucratic sabotage. Out there, no one can stop them
“When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God“.
It feels like every day lately, we get more news of newsroom hemorrhage.
Last week, self-appointed media emperor Jeff Bezos wrote a letter to his employees at TheWashington Post asserting in no uncertain terms that the paper’s opinion page will no longer welcome all opinions. “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,” he told staff—and later, all of his followers on X.
We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job.
This statement was yet another strike against our increasingly imperiled free press.
The Post economics reporter Jeff Stein wrote a qualified assurance on Bluesky. (“I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know.”) But if billionaires keep billionairing, we have every reason to suspect this cycle will continue. Writers of conscience will leave their papers, subscribers will follow suit, and the once-titanic newspaper brands will continue to go the way of the dodo bird.
It’s not great news.
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Of course, the current climate is not an overnight phenomenon. According to a Statista report compiled by Amy Watson, the US has seen a 70 percent drop in newsroom employees over the past fifteen years. “In 2021, just 104,290 people were employed in the US newspaper industry…in 2006, the industry employed over 365 thousand people.”
Ten years ago, we could chalk this all up to the big, bad internet. Newsrooms shrank as budgets slashed. But now journalism also has a morale problem. According to a Poynter survey, an unprecedented amount of safely employed reporters have left their posts over the past five years, citing staggering levels of burnout.
We can hardly wonder where that comes from, when writers cite fear of censorship and loss of institutional faith in their resignation letters. And as billionaire paper owners like Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong of The Los Angeles Times tilt to promote an aggressive Silicon Valley agenda, it’s harder and harder to call the press free in the first place.
When both the Post and the Times gave Trump a by, dozens of journalists from both papers resigned in protest, or accepted buy-outs. We could also knock the New York Times in the same sentence, for its disingenuous and cowardly coverage of the genocide in Gaza. That led to the edging out of reporter Jazmine Hughes.
Former Los Angeles Times writer Carla Hall lamented the trickle down effect such losses have on a readership.”The city has lost a base of knowledge and expertise on the most pressing and important issues: homelessness, housing, criminal justice, water and drought, environmental issues, and education,” she told the Columbia Journalism Review. I assume the same can be said for all papers with leaky mastheads. It’ll be hard to tally the effects of so much institutional knowledge lost.
And to add insult to injury, the crisis call is not merely coming from inside the house. The kind and quality of coverage reporters will have access to is suddenly on the line too, thanks to some unprecedented White House tinkering with the press pool.
As Politico reported last week, moving forward “the administration—not an independent group of journalists—will determine which outlets have access to the president.” AP, Bloomberg and Reuters will no longer have a guaranteed spot in the press corps. And if the Pentagon’s booting of most traditional news outlets is any kind of harbinger, we can guess that Breitbart will get breaking stories before Reuters does.
Eugene Daniels, the president of the White House Correspondent’s Association, decried the change. As he told Politico, “this move tears at the independence of a free press in the United States.” Again? Not great.
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So how do we support journalists these days? How do we hold a free press together, with all these tearing hands in the mix?
The good news is that when trusted reporters make a stand, readers tend to follow. Many established writers have turned into compelling free agents, easy to find as long as the internet stays free. More and more of them seem to be offering independent analysis, from podcasts to newsletters to good-old-fashioned blogs. Consider the two former Post writers behind The Contrarian.
And let’s hope we’ll always have the happily un-billionaire-tethered, Guardian.
But if you love a US paper for its integrity? There’s never been a better time to show your support, in subscription dollars or vocal endorsement. In the meantime, let’s read local, follow the whistle-blowers, and keep the lines open. If democracy dies in darkness, readers keep the lights on.
“Oh, what should I wear today? This stupid frickin’ red hat.”
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June 12, 2025; Washington, DC; Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), testifies before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform | Jack Gruber-USA TODAY
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) slammed Republicans for not thinking for themselves, saying that it’s “easy” to be a Republican.
“Think of how easy it would be to be a damn Republican,” Walz said at the DNC Summer Meeting in Minneapolis yesterday. “‘Oh, what should I wear today? This stupid frickin’ red hat. What should I say today? I don’t know, just make sure it’s cruel. Who do we listen to? That guy, oh the felon in the White House, listen to him and that will be fine.’”
Walz’s fiery speech included calling the president a “wannabe king in the White House” and the “dictator-in-chief” and said he’s “sick and tired of this Democratic Party bringing a pencil to a knife fight.”
“We cannot be the only party that plays by the rules anymore,” he said.
Walz, who was the vice presidential nominee last year, stood by Kamala Harris, saying she would have been a “fantastic president.”
“Look, we wouldn’t wake up every day to a bunch of s**t on TV and a bunch of nonsense,” he continued. “We would wake up to an adult with compassion and dignity and vision and leadership doing the work, not a man-child crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell.”
Walz was likely referring to the president’s “cankles,” which the White House says is the result of his Chronic Venous Insufficiency.
Tim Walz says Kamala Harris "would have been a fantastic president … and look, we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV and a bunch of nonsense. We would wake up to an adult with compassion and dignity and leadership doing the work, not a manchild crying about… pic.twitter.com/jZZ9v61cQn
“Don’t take the bait,” he said. “It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities and the attempt to go into others, the flaunting of the rule of law, the cruelness and the unconstitutional nature of the way they’re attacking our neighbors, that the press finds the need to talk about, ‘Oh, there’s a division in the Democratic Party.’ There’s a division in my damn house and we’re still married and things are good. That’s life.”
“We are strong because we challenge each other,” he said. “We are strong because we’re held accountable. We’re strong because we believe there’s a place for everyone here.
Walz: "Don't take the bait. It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities and the attempt to go into others, the flaunting of the rule of law, the cruelness and the unconstitutional nature of the way they're attacking our neighbors, that the press… pic.twitter.com/kxknuorihE
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order responding to US President Donald Trump’s threat to send immigration agents and potentially troops to the Illinois city on August 30, 2025.
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“We will protect our Constitution, we will protect our city, and we will protect our people,” Mayor Brandon Johnson declared. “We do not want to see tanks in our streets. We do not want to see families ripped apart.”
Continuing the battle against US President Donald Trump’s “erratic and petulant behavior,” Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Saturday signed an executive order responding to the Republican’s threats to deploy federal immigration agents and potentially National Guard and active-duty troops to Illinois’ biggest city.
Just before signing the order, Johnson told journalists that he would have preferred to work with City Council to pass legislation, “but unfortunately we do not have the luxury of time,” given “credible reports that we have days, not weeks, before our city sees some type of militarized activity by the federal government.”
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Asked about which specific reports he was referring to, the mayor just said that the deployment could occur as soon as Friday, so he had to take “immediate, drastic action to protect our people from federal overreach.”
“We will protect our Constitution, we will protect our city, and we will protect our people,” he declared. “We do not want to see tanks in our streets. We do not want to see families ripped apart. We do not want grandmothers thrown into the back of unmarked vans. We don’t want to see homeless Chicagoans harassed or disappeared by federal agents. We don’t want to see Chicagoans arrested for sitting on their porch. That’s not who we are as a city, and that’s not who we are as a nation.”
A spokesperson for the suburban Naval Station Great Lakes confirmed to Military Times earlier this week that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has contacted the base about possibly using it for immigration enforcement activities.
The Chicago Sun-Times obtained an email in which the station’s commanding officer, Navy Cpt. Stephen Yargosz, told his leadership team: “These operations are similar to what occurred in Los Angeles earlier this summer. Same DHS team.”
According to the newspaper, Yargosz added in his Monday email that “this morning I received a call that there is the potential also to support National Guard units. Not many details on this right now. Mainly a lot of concerns and questions.”
In addition to targeting California’s largest city, Trump has recently federalized Washington, DC’s police force and deployed the National Guard there—and he has threatened to similarly target other Democrat-led cities, despite their falling crime rates.
White House officials have distinctly said the operation in Chicago would mirror Los Angeles more than DC, which saw thousands of National Guard troops and hundreds of active-duty Marines—some of whom are stationed there through November—activated to quell protests against immigration raids.
“If these Democrats focused on fixing crime in their own cities instead of doing publicity stunts to criticize the president, their communities would be much safer,” wrote White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson. “[Democrats] should listen to fellow Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser who recently celebrated the Trump administration’s success in driving down violent crime in Washington, DC.”
Johnson’s order against Trump’s “tyranny” states that the mayor demands the president “and any agents acting under his authority stand down from any attempts to deploy the US armed forces—including the National Guard—in Chicago.”
“The city will pursue all available legal and legislative avenues to counter coordinated efforts from the federal government that violate the rights of the city and its residents, including the constitutional rights to peacefully assemble and protest, and the right to due process,” the document warns.
The order also establishes the Protecting Chicago Initiative, which will include making information regarding residents’ rights and federal government action available; coordinating efforts to identify and address community needs; and regularly submitting public records requests to DHS, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as Customs and Border Protection.
The document states that the Chicago Police Department “shall remain a locally controlled law enforcement agency” under the authority of the city and the mayor, no CPD personnel shall participate in civil immigration enforcement, and all officers, “when engaged in any law enforcement, crowd management, or public safety operations, will wear department-authorized uniforms.”
It further says that “CPD officers are prohibited from intentionally disguising or concealing their identities from the public by wearing any mask, covering, or disguise while performing their official duties,” and “all other law enforcement officers, including federal agents, as well as members of the military operating in Chicago, are urged to adhere to these requirements to protect public safety and promote accountability.”
Under Trump, federal immigration officials have often donned masks—which has led to people targeted for arrest questioning whether they are encountering real agents, as well as criminals impersonating agents.
During Saturday’s signing event, Johnson said that his office has communicated with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, and the state’s congressional delegation, and “we are in complete alignment.”
The mayor’s move won praise from the Chicago Teachers Union, which said in a statement that CTU “stands in firm opposition to the president’s threat to occupy our city with federal forces and terrorize our communities. As educators working and living in every one of Chicago’s 77 neighborhoods, we know that safety does not come from federal forces invading our city. Real safety comes from the types of community investments that Mayor Johnson has made into public health, public education, summer youth jobs, affordable housing, small business development, and mental health care.”
Noting Trump’s recent attacks on Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the union said that “if Trump wants to spend a million dollars a day in Chicago, he can send it for crossing guards to help our children move safely across this city, for Safe Passage to make sure that our children have a friendly face to see on their journey back and forth to home, for SNAP benefits to make sure our children have the nutrition they need to thrive and flourish, for special education and dual language supports for our students, and for healthcare so their families can afford the medicine and care they need.”
“The CTU applauds Mayor Johnson for taking steps to protect the rights of Chicagoans, and to not be conscripted into Trump’s threatened occupation of our city,” the union continued. “We stand in solidarity with all of our fellow Chicagoans, as we say no to occupation and demand that our federal tax dollars be used to provide the services our communities actually need: healthcare, SNAP, and fully funded schools to our communities, not to send federal troops to terrorize them.”
“This is why we will join tens of thousands of Chicagoans on Monday at 11:00 am, for the Workers Over Billionaires march and rally,” the CTU added. “This Labor Day, we will be in the streets of our city, marching peacefully, to say NO to Trump, his occupation, and the billionaire takeover of our country.”
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