Stephen Miller (political advisor)

Stephen Miller
Miller in 2016
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy
Assumed office
January 20, 2025
Serving with Dan Scavino, James Blair, & Taylor Budowich
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byBruce Reed
12th United States Homeland Security Advisor
Assumed office
January 20, 2025
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byElizabeth Sherwood-Randall
Senior Advisor to the President
In office
January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021
Serving with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byBrian Deese
Valerie Jarrett
Shailagh Murray
Succeeded byMike Donilon
Cedric Richmond
White House Director of Speechwriting
In office
January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byCody Keenan
Succeeded byVinay Reddy
Personal details
Born (1985-08-23) August 23, 1985 (age 39)
Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Spouse
(m. 2020)
Children3
EducationDuke University (BA)

Stephen Miller (born August 23, 1985) is an American political advisor who is currently the White House deputy chief of staff for policy and United States homeland security advisor. He previously served as a senior advisor for policy and White House director of speechwriting to President Donald Trump's first term. His politics have been described as far-right and anti-immigration.[1][2]

A graduate of Duke University, Miller was involved in conservative causes during his youth, serving as the president of the Duke chapter of Horowitz's Students for Academic Freedom and writing conservative columns for the school newspaper. He pursued a career in politics after his graduation, first working as a press secretary for U.S. representatives Michele Bachmann and John Shadegg. He became the communications director for Senator Jeff Sessions in 2009, who later became the United States Attorney General under President Trump. In 2016, joined Donald Trump's presidential campaign, later joining the first Trump administration as a senior advisor to the president and the White House director of speechwriting.

As a speechwriter for Trump, Miller helped write Trump's 2017 inaugural address. He was a key adviser from the early days of Trump's presidency. An immigration hardliner, Miller was a chief architect of Trump's travel ban, the administration's reduction of refugees accepted to the United States, and Trump's policy of separating migrant children from their parents. He prevented the publication of internal administration studies that showed that refugees had a net positive effect on government revenues. Miller reportedly played a central role in the resignation in April 2019 of Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, whom he believed was insufficiently hawkish on immigration.

As a White House spokesman, Miller on multiple occasions made false and unsubstantiated claims regarding widespread electoral fraud. Emails leaked in November 2019 showed that Miller had promoted articles from white nationalist publications VDARE and American Renaissance, and had espoused conspiracy theories. Miller is on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of extremists. After leaving the first Trump administration, he founded the America First Legal Foundation. In November 2024, it was announced that Miller would serve as Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security advisor in his second term.

  1. ^ Kranz, Michal (January 22, 2018). "How a 32-year-old far right darling became the man who writes Trump's biggest speeches — and the one person people keep blaming for the shutdown". Business Insider. New York City: Insider Inc. Archived from the original on April 8, 2019. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
  2. ^ May, Charlie (February 19, 2018). "Lindsey Graham slams Stephen Miller, says "White House staff has been pretty unreliable"". Salon. San Francisco, California. Archived from the original on May 18, 2019.

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