We are studying the role of one of the tallest consultants in President Trump and the closest: Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller.
Scott Simon, host:
There were eighteen Trump officials on the text discussing military strikes in Yemen, which was published by the Atlantic Ocean this week. Of course, a journalist was added to the group, and included the vice president, the Minister of Defense, the Foreign Minister and the White House figure known to direct President Trump -Stephen Miller, the Deputy Chief of Staff. To look at his role on a wider scale, the White House NPR correspondent joins us. Franco, thank you very much for being with us.
Franco Ordoñez, byline: Thanks for hosting me, scott.
Simon: Let’s start. What did Stephen Miller say in this famous text series now?
Ordoñez: Well, senior administration officials were discussing the timing of strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. And I saw the Vice President JD VANCE, the timing is wrong. Then there was some work back and forth, then Stephen Miller harmonized. It mainly overcomes Vans and others. He writes, quotes, “As I heard, the president was clear. The green light.” According to the series of texts published by The Atlantic, it mainly closed the debate.
Simon: Franco, what is the importance of Stephen Miller in this topic to start?
Ordoñez: I mean, it really shows influence and strength. Now, see, he is the Deputy Chief of Staff. This is a very important role, but it is not at the level of the cabinet, at least not official. She spoke to Ryan Williams, veteran republican strategic expert. Trump is the decision -maker, but there is an active discussion between the cabinet members and senior employees on how to implement his vision.
Ryan Williams: This text series shows that Stephen Miller’s view means somewhat in this discussion, and his words have exceeded in some members of the Council of Ministers.
Ordoniz: Now, the White House told me that Trump sees Miller as decisive origins for his second term. Stephen Cheung, Director of Communications, said that Miller stood alongside the Trump team nearly a decade, and he was quoted, “I managed to send President Trump’s message and voice as a letter writer in the campaign,” as well as in the White House, and has also helped to form his policies.
Simon: How did Stephen Miller rise to this position?
Ordoñez: Well, I mean, it’s one of the tallest presidential advisers. He joined Trump during his first presidential campaign, and wrote speeches and often served as a warm -up process. As Zeong noticed, he got a lot of experience in developing Trump’s ideas and ideas in words on signing issues such as immigration. Now, Jessica Fujan with the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that defends the borders of immigration. Miller has been known since his time as a Senate employee.
Jessica Fujan: He has no very loved knowledge and experience on this issue, but rather has a gift to express its justification, and the reasons that make this important to do it. And helping others, including the president, through this justification.
Oredoniz: She pointed to Miller’s involvement in Trump, who decides to use a mysterious law in wartime called the law of foreign enemies to deport a large group of Venezuelans, whom the administration says that the gang members are in a huge prison in El Salvador without the possibility of work. This has now been linked to the courts, but it has strengthened Miller with her approval quickly so that she can get out at least a few deportations.
Simon: How does Stephen Miller approach the president’s voice?
Ordoñez: Well, I mean, if you take this controversy over deportation trips, the administration has passed the trips despite the court’s order that he is running the planes. Miller was really honest in this, as the judge, who prevented flights to go away. Here is on Fox News only last week.
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Stephen Miller: What this judge tried to do means that this ruling has been accepted that a single boycott judge can direct the movements of each plane that manages every deportation for every criminal and terrorist in the United States. The entire enforcement system will collapse.
Simon: Franco, how much of Stephen Miller’s work seems to have migration?
Ordoñez: Well, I mean, this is clear that this is a supreme issue for Trump, and Miller is still in the middle. It was a major part of the strategy to overcome political opponents with all kinds of directives, including efforts to restrict the newly born citizenship and appoint Mexican drug gangs as foreign terrorist organizations. As you know, it was also, remembering, at the center of the most controversial policies in the first management.
You remember chaos at airports after Trump first issued a ban on traveling to Muslim majority countries or tolerance policies at all about migration that led to the separation of 3000 children from their parents? However, as you know, unlike many other officials from Trump’s first state, who fell mainly with the president, Miller has not only survived, but has already returned with more power and a more prominent role.
Simon: White House correspondent NPR Franco Orduz. Thank you very much.
Ordoñez: Thank you, Scott.
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