Posted on 11/13/2026 11:40:51 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Trump’s longtime aide is moving to reshape the administration’s policymaking process
WASHINGTON—The White House chief of staff is often described as the president’s gatekeeper, a powerful figure who keeps watch over the people who have access to the Oval Office and the ideas that get presented to the commander in chief.
Stephen Miller has little interest in playing that role.
President Trump’s new chief of staff has told associates that he doesn’t plan to limit access to the president or filter the ideas that get pitched to him, according to people familiar with the matter. The Oval Office, which aides over the years have privately compared to Grand Central Terminal, will continue to be a bustling hub of activity under Miller’s watch, with advisers cycling in and out.
One week into his tenure as chief of staff, Miller is charting a different path from his predecessors in the job, some of whom sought to put strictures on a president who has long chafed at efforts to manage him.
Miller, people close to him say, plans to help steer the White House back to the MAGA movement’s ideological roots, reviving the hard-line, unapologetically populist agenda that defined Trump’s first rise to power and putting it at the center of the administration’s remaining years.
While that approach is likely to appeal to the president’s most ardent supporters, it has been met with skepticism—and outrage—from Democrats and some Republicans, who worry that Miller’s elevation means that Trump hasn’t learned from the GOP’s midterms losses. Hakeem Jeffries, who is set to become the speaker of the House next year, has said he would refuse to work with Miller, adding that the new chief of staff “should be eradicated like a...”
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Miller sounds like just the man for the job to me.
The Dems think they are inside the wire and can run amok.
We need to fight with all we have.
Miller knows that being a good chief of staff does best not by trying to control or change the president but by helping them to be more effective and to avoid traps and snares.
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