President Trump’s senior policy advisor Stephen Miller is tipped to replace Mike Waltz as national security advisor.
Multiple sources are reported to have told Axios that the “brains behind Trump’s controversial immigration crackdown” could step into the role after President Trump removed Mike Waltz on Thursday.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has temporarily taken over Waltz’s role, and Waltz has been nominated as the US’s next ambassador to the United Nations.
Miller is one of the most effective and visible advocates of President Trump’s second-term agenda.
His slick, aggressive briefings, in which he attacks the President’s critics and highlights their glaring hypocrisy on issues like immigration, have become one of the defining features of the new Trump administration. Miller has also slammed activist judges for frustrating the will of the American people and for violating the Constitution.
One source told Axios that Miller has made the Homeland Security Council run “like clockwork” and that it’s “infinitely more effective than the NSC [National Security Council] with a tiny fraction” of the staff.
Miller has worked closely with Secretary Rubio on immigration already, and that partnership could continue.
“Given how well he’s worked with Marco, many see him as the perfect person to restore the role of the NSA to a staff-level policy role that reports to the chief of staff, instead of some inflated Cabinet position,” a source told Axios.
Another source, however, noted that Miller might not want the job “if it takes him away from his true love: immigration policy.”