Trump Replaces Chief of Staff Susie Wiles With Stephen Miller, Effective Monday
Three days after Republicans were swept out of power in the midterm elections, President Trump announced Friday that Stephen Miller will replace Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff on Monday — and that Wiles, the nation's first female chief of staff, will continue working for him on political operations.
President Trump is changing the top of his White House staff. Chief of staff Susie Wiles is being replaced by Stephen Miller, the president said Friday, in an announcement that lands three days after Republicans suffered catastrophic losses in this week's midterm elections. Miller, who currently serves as deputy chief of staff and as an advisor to the Department of Homeland Security, will take over on Monday, November 9.
Wiles — the nation's first female White House chief of staff — is not leaving the president's orbit. According to Trump's Truth Social post announcing the change, she will continue to work for him on political operations, and the president said she has done an outstanding job. Miller's move puts the architect of many of Trump's most controversial policies, particularly on immigration, in the job that controls the flow of paper, people and decisions to the president's desk.
Trump made the case for the change in person Friday afternoon. 'Stephen's been with me since the beginning. He gets it,' he told reporters, in the account of the announcement read by this desk. The timing ties the shakeup directly to the midterms: a president whose party has just lost both chambers is rebuilding his inner circle around the advisor most associated with the hardest edge of his agenda.
For New York, the change is national news with a local address: Miller's immigration portfolio is the one that reaches this city's courts, shelters and workplaces first, and the new Congress seated by Tuesday's results will meet Miller across the table when the administration's program is written. This desk files the Monday handover and any named successors to Miller's deputy role when officials confirm them.
