{
  "id": 18650578,
  "title": "Five Things To Know About Stephen Miller, Trump’s New Chief of Staff",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/07/five-things-to-know-about-stephen-miller-trumps-new-chief-of-staff",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-07T05:53:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hindustan Times - World News",
    "slug": "hindustan-times-world-news",
    "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/five-things-to-know-about-stephen-miller-trump-s-new-chief-of-staff-101794030655836.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "President Trump has announced that Susie Wiles, his chief of staff and close ally, will leave the White House to be replaced by Stephen Miller. Miller is a top Trump adviser known for his hard-line approach to immigration, once holding the positions of deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser. However, his title did not fully reflect the extent of his influence on the president's domestic and foreign policy agenda. Here are five key points to know about Trump's new chief of staff:\n\n1. Miller has been a conservative since early in his life. He grew up in a liberal Jewish family in Santa Monica, California, and displayed conservative tendencies even during his high school years. He was known for complaining about perceived liberalism to conservative media personalities and criticizing his high school's leadership for its liberal leanings.\n\n2. Miller attended Duke University and wrote for the school paper as a columnist, where he expressed conservative viewpoints and criticized the school's liberal nature. He famously wrote in an early column titled \"Welcome to Leftist University\" that \"like countless other schools across the nation, we too are a leftist university.\"\n\n3. Miller has been working with Trump for over a decade. After working for Jeff Sessions, a former GOP senator from Alabama, on Trump's 2016 campaign, Miller gained prominence after writing the then-candidate's acceptance speech for the Republican nomination. Once Trump was elected, Miller served as the director of speechwriting in the White House and later became the homeland security adviser.\n\n4. Miller maintained his loyalty to Trump even after his re-election loss on January 6, 2021. While many of Trump's allies abandoned the president, Miller helped draft Trump's speech on the morning of the attack and later announced that the president would return to office after the election. He subsequently launched America First Legal, an organization backing Trump's policies and opposing initiatives from the Biden administration.\n\n5. Miller plays a critical role in shaping Trump's immigration approach. In 2019, Trump entrusted Miller with the responsibility of handling immigration policy, and he has since been the architect of an aggressive immigration policy, including mass deportations and revocations of legal status. Despite public sentiment shifting following recent incidents, Miller continues to wield broad power in the White House, spearheading battles with universities and law firms and overseeing deadly strikes on boats allegedly transporting drugs.",
  "summary": "Miller has long shaped many of the president’s most aggressive policies as a loyal top adviser.",
  "key_points": [
    "Stephen Miller, known for hard-line immigration stance, becomes Trump's new chief of staff",
    "Miller has been influential in Trump's policy agenda for over a decade",
    "Miller's loyalty to Trump persisted after January 6, 2021 Capitol attack"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}