Democrats Denounce 41-Year-Old Stephen Miller's Chief of Staff Promotion After Midterm Rebuke
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Updated · The Washington Post · Nov 8
Democrats Denounce 41-Year-Old Stephen Miller's Chief of Staff Promotion After Midterm Rebuke
3 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Nov 8
Summary
Hakeem Jeffries called Stephen Miller’s Friday promotion an “irresponsible” and “awful” choice, saying he would not maintain the contact he had with former chief of staff Susie Wiles.
Democrats tied the backlash to the midterms, arguing voters had just rejected the Trump administration’s most divisive agenda and that elevating Miller amounted to doubling down on MAGA politics.
Adam Hamilton, a Kansas senator-elect, said the move looked “really odd,” while Michigan senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed said Miller had fueled fear, anger and the weaponization of ICE.
Miller, 41, has been a central architect of Trump policies on immigration, Caribbean anti-drug strikes, the raid targeting Nicolás Maduro and efforts to assert control over Greenland.