Stephen Miller To Take Over As White House Chief Of Staff

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, perhaps the Trump administration’s foremost immigration and deportation hawk, will take over as chief of staff after Susie Wiles resigned her position Thursday night. President Donald Trump announced Miller’s promotion on social media, stating Miller is one of his “most trusted advisors,” adding, “Susie Wiles, who has done an outstanding job, will be moving over to the Trump Political Operation. I want to thank her for her service as Chief of Staff — She has done a great job!” The shake-up at the top comes after devastating midterms for Republicans, where many voters were angry with the protracted war in Iran and its resultant high gas prices and a lack of focus on domestic issues like affordability. Staffing changes after election defeats are fairly common, and more could come. Officials in top positions at the Department of Justice have also started turning in their resignations, including Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon and Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division John Eisenberg. Some on the right, like Steve Bannon, who served as the White House chief strategist in Trump’s first term, called for Wiles to be removed, stating, “I think that you have to look to people like Susie Wiles, the chief of staff, and the political consultants that are there … because of the results, they should be removed and removed immediately.” Matthew Peterson, a Claremont Institute fellow and founder of FORUM, a debate platform for the new right, added that Wiles’ ouster “needed to be done a good long while ago, but was necessary this week,” calling Miller’s succession a “game changer.” “Wiles is obviously an extremely capable operator, good at managing Trump, and deserves credit for the win,” he stated. “But after the first heady 6-9 months of the admin, as time went on, her lack of internalized understanding of the actual MAGA agenda became damning. The amount of stuff that has been blocked, from MAHA to immigration, and the fools who have been suffered — long after proving they can’t do the job — is, well A LOT.” Miller is well-liked on the right as someone who has demonstrated laser focus on mass deportations and how government policy needs to benefit the American people, economically and culturally. When speaking of mass deportations, Miller said, “At every turn illegal aliens have always been treated better than Americans.” “Do you have any idea how many resources will be opened up for Americans when the illegals are gone? No more waiting in line at an emergency room, no more massive traffic in Los Angeles,” he continued. “Your health insurance premiums go down, your public school classroom size will shrink dramatically. They have more time to educate every student. You won’t have to compete for public benefits.” Miller’s message on why drug traffickers from South and Central America needed to be “treated just as brutally and just as ruthlessly” as ISIS or al-Qaida is because successful domestic family formation is dependent on securing the homeland, adding, “A country cannot pursue economic growth, cultural enrichment, art, architecture, education, science, if it doesn’t have fundamental security first.” Fraud is another area in which Miller has spoken about an issue fully in terms of Americans’ birthright and how it is being stolen by foreigners who do not belong in the country, stating, “The main thing I want the American people to know is that if you’re a middle-class taxpayer in this country, before President Trump came along, you spent half your working life paying for fraudsters and scammers, many of whom are refugees, illegal aliens, and foreigners who came to this country to loot and plunder us.” Breccan F. Thies is the White House correspondent for The Federalist. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. As an investigative journalist, he previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies. domestic policyDonald TrumpImmigrationIran Warmass deportationsStephen MillerSusie WilesWhite House