Controversial immigration hardliner Stephen Miller to become White House chief of staff

Mr Miller is one of Trump’s closest and longest-serving advisers, jumping on board during his long-shot 2016 presidential campaign.

Mr Miller, long a key member of Trump’s inner circle, is a key architect of the administration’s hard-line immigration policies.

President Donald Trump said on Friday that Stephen Miller was replacing Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, mere days after Republicans lost control of Congress in the midterm elections.

Mr Miller, long a key member of Trump’s inner circle, is a key architect of the administration’s hard-line immigration policies. He is one of Trump’s closest and longest-serving advisers, jumping on board during his long-shot 2016 presidential campaign as a speechwriter. He currently serves as White House deputy chief of staff.

Mr Miller is a former aide to former Senator Jeff Sessions, who served as Trump’s first attorney general.

Ms Wiles gave Trump her resignation on Thursday night, a person familiar with the events said, speaking on condition of anonymity to describe the private conversation. On his social media site, Mr Trump praised Wiles and said she’d continue to work for his political organisation.

Ms Wiles, the steely political operator and longtime adviser to Mr Trump, was the first woman to ever serve in that post and the longest-serving White House chief of staff for Mr Trump, who cycled through four of them during his first four-year term.

The departure also came months after Ms Wiles indicated she no longer showed evidence of breast cancer after she underwent months of treatment for the disease, a diagnosis she went public with in March 2026.

Mr Miller is seen as the biggest champion of the Trump administration's hawkish approach to immigration, with human rights organisations and political opponents criticising Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids that have taken place in neighbourhoods all across the US since Mr Trump's reelection.