Katie Miller quits SpaceX, sells shares as husband Stephen Miller reportedly cleared of White House ethics restrictions

Times of India ^ | November 10, 2026 | Edited by Poulomi Ghosh

[SunkenCiv]

Katie Miller, wife of incoming White House chief of staff Stephen Miller, has severed her professional and financial ties with Elon Musk's SpaceX, selling her shares in the company and giving up unvested stock compensation, according to reports. The move reportedly clears the way for Stephen Miller to participate in White House policy discussions without the conflict-of-interest restrictions that had previously required him to recuse himself from certain matters involving his wife's business interests. 

A White House official told The Atlantic that Stephen Miller is "no longer subject to any recusals and may fully participate in all meetings and policy matters". 

Katie Miller had worked as an adviser to SpaceX. Her association with Musk's company had meant her husband was required to stay away from administration decisions involving areas such as space policy and artificial intelligence. 

She has also abandoned a planned podcast arrangement with Paramount, another business relationship that had reportedly prompted ethics restrictions on her husband. 

The developments come days after President Donald Trump appointed Stephen Miller as his new White House chief of staff, replacing Susie Wiles. 

Katie Miller announced on Sunday that she was stepping away from her podcast, explaining that her husband's new responsibilities and the demands of raising their four children had made it difficult to continue. 

"Nothing is more important than raising our four kids," she wrote on X. "While I've loved the podcast, the time commitment is too great and now is the time to step away." 

She also celebrated her husband's elevation to the powerful White House position, responding to speculation about her role in his appointment with a sarcastic post: "BREAKING: Wife supports husband. If your wife doesn't do this, find a new one."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: katiemiller; spacex; stephenmiller

[SunkenCiv]

Katie Miller exits SpaceX, sells all shares so that there's conflict of interest for her husand's new White House role.

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[SunkenCiv]

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[mewzilla]

Lives, fortunes, and sacred honor.

God bless patriots who walk that walk.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Dr. Sivana]

I am a Catholic, but I chose my wife well. She supports me, and we have had VERY thin times. Even now, I have to be far away to make ends meet for now.

Even if she didn’t, I do not have the option of finding a new one. That’s okay. She doesn’t either.

[SunkenCiv]

Sounds perfect. Regarding trying to change, there’s also the problem of not having any idea what any new one would ultimately be like, day after day.

[Hyman Roth]

Impeach. Obstruction uhhhhh or something./s

[brownsfan]

Might be a good time to dump SpaceX. Musk is probably #2 on the DSA hit list, right behind Trump. The DSA will seek to punish Musk and ruin his businesses.

[dynoman]

Elon is a modern day real life Howard Roark.

[butlerweave]

All Politicians should have to sell all their stock etc etc before they get sworn in

[quantim]

The POS Congressional thieves can trade during their terms, one more of the criminal Congress’s perks. Although the good news is that this massive blue wave did take out some of the RINO trash.

[SunkenCiv]

It should be illegal for elected officials to set up non-profits; those allow them to live high on the hog on bribe money.

[cyclotic]

When I asked my wife to marry me, before she answered she asked if when we had kids she could be a full time mom.

I said Yes. and so did she.

She was earning more than me at the time. We struggled with money and made it work.

I don’t know how younger people make it work now. My income is still modest but well above average and it’s still a challenge.

She’s busier now with things than when we had kids at home. Running a household is a full time job.

[Eccl 10:2]

“All Politicians should have to sell all their stock etc etc before they get sworn in”

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I get your point, but I think better would be: If they want to invest in equities or debt instruments, limit their investment options to an index such as SPY (S&P 500) or VTI (captures the entire US market). No selling or trading except for approved emergencies or a once every 5 years real estate transaction. Something like that. Politicians should be incentivized this way to invest in broad US indexes, which ties their wealth to the wealth of the US as a whole.

[SunkenCiv]

A great time to buy it was a day or so after the 'election' we just had. It's already recovered, opened a bit lower, but has been heading up. Tesla fell something like $44 after the election, but has been bouncing back. Nvidia's been slow for the better part of a year, Jensen's affair probably won't do much of anything, and all three companies will continue to be well-run and growth oriented. The DSA will have their sights set on Democrats, part of their struggle for absolute power. I suspect we'll see more high-profile Demwit targets by muzzie assassins, and "corruption" charges hurled. Tish James is cleaving to Hakeem J, I'm sure both are aware of the danger from Mamdani et al.

[sphinx]

Wives and other family members rank right up with book advances as a way to launder payoff money. We don’t police either as tightly as we should.

In this case, Katie Miller is doing the right thing.

I’ll just note that book advances should be easy to police. Ban them outright for office holders and candidates for major offices.

By all means, I applaud political people who write books. That can be a very useful exercise in self-clarification, policy clarification, and thoughtful exporations of issues. If they write them themselves, they sometimes have significant historical value as well.

But no advances. Write your book. Whether you self-publish or go through a conventional publisher, set whatever royalty you want; earn the royalties book by book based on real sales ... but no big advances or big bulk purchases by payola artists.

Cracking down on wives and other family members is harder because they sometimes have serious and legitimate careers of their own. That’s already the case in many first marriages when people meet each other in college or along the way in private sector careers. It’s probably even more common in second marriages, when A-listers get divorced (often due to the pressures of high powered careers in marriages where the spouse feels left out) and then meet other A-listers on the fast track. Is the spouse or child already a standout performer in a competitive field. Or they Hunter Biden clones, with payoff artists discovering new “talents” for which they should be richly rewarded. That’s an open door to fraud ... but if the spouse is already a dynamo, it becomes a hard line to police.