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Stephen Miller To Take Over As White House Chief Of Staff

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By The Federalist.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, perhaps the Trump administration’s foremost immigration and deportation hawk, will take over as chief of staff after Susie Wiles resigned her position Thursday night.

President Donald Trump announced Miller’s promotion on social media, stating Miller is one of his “most trusted advisors,” adding, “Susie Wiles, who has done an outstanding job, will be moving over to the Trump Political Operation. I want to thank her for her service as Chief of Staff — She has done a great job!”

The shake-up at the top comes after devastating midterms for Republicans, where many voters were angry with the protracted war in Iran and its resultant high gas prices and a lack of focus on domestic issues like affordability.

Staffing changes after election defeats are fairly common, and more could come. Officials in top positions at the Department of Justice have also started turning in their resignations, including Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon and Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division John Eisenberg.

Some on the right, like Steve Bannon, who served as the White House chief strategist in Trump’s first term, called for Wiles to be removed, stating, “I think that you have to look to people like Susie Wiles, the chief of staff, and the political consultants that are there … because of the results, they should be removed and removed immediately.” (Read more from “Stephen Miller To Take Over As White House Chief Of Staff” HERE)

‘Orwellian:’ GOP Congressman Publicly Hits Back Against Stephen Miller

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U.S. Rep Thomas Massie (R-KY) recently celebrated Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s decision to reject a deal from the Trump administration, leading to a public dispute with Stephen Miller.

Raw Story reported on the MIT’s initial statement saying it cannot support the Trump admin’s plan. That led Massie to reply with, “The surest way to screw up the world’s best technical school is to let feds tell them how to run it… Congrats to my alma mater for turning down a bribe to let the executive branch dictate what happens on its campus.” . . .

Trump adviser Stephen Miller chimed in on that post, writing, “MIT is a federally funded and financed institution. The US government asked MIT, as one of America’s largest recipients of taxpayer dollars, to certify that students and professors will be hired based on objective merit and not skin color.” . . .

Massie himself then responded to Miller.

“Undergrad tuition is privately funded at MIT with a few exceptions like Pell grants which apply to all colleges,” Massie wrote. “I trust MIT more than any party at the White House to know which 18 yr olds can solve differential equations. Also, Feds policing speech on campuses is Orwellian.”

(Read more from “‘Orwellian:’ GOP Congressman Publicly Hits Back Against Stephen Miller” HERE)

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