Democratic lawmakers decried Stephen Miller as a “hatemonger”, a “xenophobe” and “vile” after Donald Trump appointed his most trusted adviser as White House chief of staff.
On Friday afternoon, the US president abruptly announced via his Truth Social platform that Miller – the architect of his sweeping immigration crackdown – would replace Susie Wiles, whom he confirmed had been ousted.
The announcement came just days after voters overwhelmingly elected Democrats in the US midterm elections, a sharp rebuke of Trump’s agenda that ended his Republican party’s control of US Congress.
“For Trump to promote this hatemonger shows he has learned nothing,” Dick Durbin, a Democratic senator from Illinois, wrote on X. Chuck Schumer, who is expected to become Senate majority leader, said Trump “learned nothing from his historic defeat” and “couldn’t have made a worse choice” in elevating Miller. Hakeem Jeffries, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives, who is widely expected to become the chamber’s first Black speaker, called Miller “a dangerous xenophobe and reckless extremist who has American blood on his hands”, and demanded he be fired. » | Ariana Baio in Washington | Saturday, November 7, 2026
