This is an Intel for Intercessors Update of IFA’s original March 28, 2026 article on Stephen Miller, now that President Trump has promoted Mr. Miller to White House Chief of Staff.

Stephen Miller is perhaps the Left’s second most-loathed person in the Trump Administration after the president himself. He is an original architect and leading voice in the MAGA movement, key architect of Mr. Trump’s immigration policies, and a trusted member of President Trump’s inner circle.

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He’s also fearless and outspoken in taking on establishment Washington, leftists, and legacy media to promote the president’s agenda.

After the Democrats swept control of the House and Senate in the 2026 midterms and gained 43 to 70 seats in the House (28 seats are still uncalled as of this writing), and retook the Senate, winning 54 to 56 seats (Mississippi and Alaska Senate seats have not been called), President Trump tapped Stephen Miller as his new White House Chief of Staff, replacing Susie Wiles.

Mr. Trump told reporters on Friday, “Stephen has been with me since the beginning. He gets it. He’s a great manager, very good politically, and a very good man.” Mr. Miller, who previously served as White House Deputy Chief of Staff, stepped into the top job on Monday, Nov. 9^th.

It’s Miller Time!

With the appointment of Mr. Miller, President Trump is elevating his most loyal advisor. He has proven himself adept at transforming the president’s agenda into executive orders and government policy.

While Mr. Miller is best known for his work on immigration policy, he also contributed to discussions in America’s operation in Venezuela and the fight against the drug cartels in Latin America and along our southern border.

Mr. Miller closely monitors the views of the MAGA America First movement and, in his new position, will work even more closely with the president. As chief of staff, Mr. Miller will now have his fingers on all policy decisions and will fiercely defend Trump’s agenda in the last two years of his presidency.

For instance, Reuters is reporting that Mr. Miller opposes prolonging the war with Iran, yet remains very supportive of Israel. Both are strong MAGA positions.

At a CPAC event at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Miller thanked the president for his new appointment.

“It was the privilege of a lifetime to join President Trump all the way back in 2015 when he came down that golden escalator. And let me tell you, if it wasn’t for President Trump, the United States of America would not exist right now. This man saved America. He saved our military from collapse. He saved our economy from destruction.

He saved our border from annihilation, and he saved our country from threats at home and abroad, which would have been the end of the American dream forever … It is the honor of my life to be President Trump’s chief of staff, and I swear to you, and I pledge you, Mr. President, my absolute loyalty, my unwavering commitment and my total devotion to your success and the success of this country.

I swear to you, and I pledge you, Mr. President, my absolute loyalty, my unwavering commitment and my total devotion to your success and the success of this country. Thank you, President Trump.”

A “Wartime Consigliere”

Many have said that President Trump tapped him to be his “wartime consigliere” as the president stares down a hostile Democratic House and Senate for the remaining two years of his term.

Mr. Trump responded to the Godfather reference of his right-hand man by saying, “He’s a great fighter. He’s been with me right from the beginning of 2015. And he’s very loyal, smart – does a great job. He’s been an MVP every year.”

Mr. Miller has a detailed knowledge of how to effectively use executive orders, which could signal that the president intends to rely more on executive action, rather than negotiating with a Democratic Congress.

That’s really not an unusual strategy. Pres. Obama lost 63 seats and control of the House in the 2010 midterms, and then lost 13 more seats in the House in the 2014 midterms and 9 seats in the Senate, flipping the Senate red. His response: “I’ve got a pen… and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive and administrative actions.”

Does Mr. Miller’s appointment signal that the president is preparing for battle against a Democratic Congress? We shall see. But it certainly appears that the Left is loading up for revenge and retribution. Investigations and impeachments against the Trump administration are on the horizon.

Who better to fight back than the president’s most loyal advisor who stands unafraid in opposition to the DSA and the leftists who have now taken over Congress?

Democrats Rocked by the New Chief of Staff

The president’s selection of Mr. Miller shocked Washington. The Left went into immediate meltdown at the news of Mr. Miller taking on the Chief of Staff role.

Senator Chuck Schumer, current Senate Minority Leader, who is hoping to be made Majority Leader in the next Congress, called Mr. Miller the architect of the most barbaric, inhumane policies of this administration. Trump couldn’t have made a worse choice. Our Democratic majorities will fight him every step of the way.”

Not to be outdone by the hateful rhetoric, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., who may or may not be elected House speaker, wrote on X calling Miller “a dangerous xenophobe and reckless extremist who has American blood on his hands. His presence in government should be eradicated like a malignant tumor. Fire him today,”

Mr. Jeffries also vowed that the Democrats in Congress will not work with Mr. Miller.

Rep. Robert Garcia, the likely next chairman of the House Oversight Committee, warned Mr. Miller to ‘Lawyer Up!’ “Oversight Democrats will continue to investigate Miller for his misconduct, and we will fight against his hateful policies in Congress and the courts.” Rep. Garcia said.

A.G. Blanche clapped back at Rep. Garcia, saying, “The Chief of Staff already has a lawyer. The Attorney General of the United States and the Department of Justice.”

When asked by CNN’s Dana Bash what crimes Mr. Miller had committed, Rep. Garcia could not name a single one. Someone should inform Rep. Garcia that disagreeing with leftist policies is not a crime, nor does it deserve “oversight.”

So what shaped Stephen Miller into the MAGA America First stalwart to elicit such vitriol from the Left?

Conservative Views Forged in a Liberal Upbringing

Mr. Miller grew up in Santa Monica, California, as the middle child of a liberal Democrat family. He is 41 years old. Mr. Miller is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, and his father’s family immigrated to the U.S. fleeing the Jewish persecution of the Russian pogroms and the Holocaust. His mother’s family were staunch FDR stalwarts and New Deal Democrats.

Mr. Miller attended a “progressive” Hebrew School and a Reform Synagogue. He graduated from Santa Monica High School in 2003. Even back then, he was known as a fierce debater and an advocate for conservatism, taking on the liberal viewpoints of his Jewish community.

In high school, he spoke out against the rising anti-Americanism taught in his school. He lobbied for students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance daily and for English-only education in schools.

He successfully fought to bring conservative author David Horowitz to his school. Afterward, Mr. Horowitz became a mentor of Mr. Miller, saying the then-teen had a “great deal of chutzpah in standing up to hostile teachers and administrators.”

Mr. Miller’s roots in conservatism most likely began in a youthful rebellion against his progressive liberal upbringing and its identity politics. Mr. Horowitz says of him, “You learn a certain style of politics when you’re on the left, and if you take it over into the right, it comes out as hardball. Dealing with the ire of his classmates inoculated him early on to the hectoring of political opponents who might name him a racist or a xenophobe.”

Like most Americans, Mr. Miller was greatly impacted by 9/11. He spent weeks researching what happened that day, how it could have happened, and reading countless heartbreaking stories of those who died and the impact on their families. He emerged from his research with strong convictions about the nation’s domestic security priorities.

“Why aren’t our airports, borders, or ports secure? Why are there three million people in the United States who have overstayed their visas? Why isn’t the murder of 3,000 people enough to shake us out of our apathy?” he wrote. “Maybe, if more people researched the true story of Sept. 11, in all its horror, it won’t take another attack, and more untold devastation, to motivate us to fix the perilous status quo.”

Mr. Miller’s conservative values couldn’t be more at odds with those of the progressive, “inclusive” Santa Monica and his family.

In 2020, he married his wife Katie, who worked as special assistant to President Trump and press secretary to Vice President Mike Pence. She worked as an aide to Elon Musk in the Department of Government Efficiency and left when Mr. Musk did. Mrs. Miller suspended her influential podcast hosting when her husband became Chief of Staff. The couple has four children.

In 2025, the Miller family were forced to move to secure military housing from their home in Arlington, Virginia, due to death threats, doxxing, and harassment from their neighbors.

His Political Career

After graduating from Duke University, Mr. Miller went to work for Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota as her press secretary. In 2009, he went to work for Rep. John Shadegg of Arizona and participated in the Tea Party protests against President Obama.

He also worked with Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama as his Communications Director and helped defeat the bipartisan Gang of Eight immigration reform bill in 2014. While working for Sen. Sessions, Mr. Miller authored the Immigration Handbook for the New Republican Majority. Mr. Miller considered the defeat of the Gang of Eight’s bill as the first step towards fixing the nation’s “porous, undermanned, politically-correct” domestic security system.

Advisor to the President

In 2016, Miller left Senator Sessions’ office in 2015 to work for Mr. Trump’s successful presidential campaign, first as his speechwriter, then as a top advisor on immigration issues advocating for a more restrictive policy. Mr. Miller wrote candidate Trump’s acceptance speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention as well as his first inaugural address.

Mr. Miller served as Senior Advisor to the President in Mr. Trump’s first administration. He authored many of Pres. Trump’s Executive Orders, including the order, called by the press, the Muslim travel ban, which was affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mr. Miller advocated for reducing the country’s refugee quota from 110,000 under Pres. Obama. Pres. Trump reduced it to 45,000.

After the 2020 election, Mr. Miller launched an advisory group called America First Legal. Its purpose is to help organize Republican attorneys general against abuses of Joe Biden’s executive branch, focusing on administrative law and executive overreach.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Miller had come to “admire the effectiveness—and aggressiveness—of the legal campaign Democrats and their supporters mounted against the Trump administration’s agenda.”

President Trump’s Second Term

One of President Trump’s first appointments after his landslide victory in the 2024 election was Mr. Miller as White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Homeland Security Advisor on November 13, 2024.

Mr. Miller is also a strong supporter of ICE and their work, promising, “To all ICE officers, you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you, or tries to stop you, or tries to obstruct you is committing a felony.”

He also advocated for ending birthright citizenship for children born in the United States of illegal aliens. “Birthright citizenship is the biggest, costliest scam in financial history.”

Mr. Miller’s role in the Trump Administration goes far beyond immigration issues. Mr. Miller has been front and center in many of Pres. Trump’s boldest undertakings of his second term.

For instance, after the capture of President Maduro of Venezuela and the U.S. striking narco-terrorist drug boats heading to the U.S., Mr. Miller has spoken out, promoting the “Donroe Doctrine”, an adaptation of the historical Monroe Doctrine.

According to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the U.S. is not going to allow “the Western Hemisphere to be a base of operation for adversaries, competitors, and rivals.”

Mr. Miller is also instrumental in the president’s policies to cut federal funding to elitist universities such as Columbia and Harvard in order to “break what the administration sees as liberalism’s hold on higher education.”

He was behind the call-up of the National Guard to patrol the streets of D.C. “The nation’s capital can’t be crime-ridden and dangerous,” Mr. Miller said.

After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Mr. Miller vowed to use the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security to “disrupt unspecified networks that are responsible for provoking violence.”

A Villain to the Left

Due to Mr. Miller’s strong zero-tolerance policy on illegal immigration and his combative style, he is the most hated member of the Trump Administration. More than 127 Democrats in Congress have called for his resignation.

Numerous civil rights groups and illegal immigrant advocacy groups have called for his resignation. He is labeled as an “extremist” by the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center. Politico calls him a “polarizing power broker”. Rolling Stone calls him the “worst White House aide in history.” The Rabbinical Assembly, representing a “diversity of American Jewish life”, demands Mr. Miller be fired immediately.

Mr. Miller’s been called a Nazi and compared to Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propagandist, as well as Heinrich Himmler, the Nazi official responsible for carrying out Hitler’s “final solution.” Mr. Miller is Jewish.

Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that when they slander you as evildoers, they will observe your good works and will glorify God on the day he visits. (1 Peter 2:12 CSB)

Let’s Pray

Lord, we thank you for Stephen Miller and for his service to our country. Help him to accomplish the plans You have for him and our nation. Grant him wisdom, knowledge, and discernment in his pursuit of policies that are pleasing to You.

Pour out Your virtues of courage, integrity, perseverance, justice, and mercy on him as he does his job for the president and the nation. Strengthen and encourage him in the face of adversity.

Provide a mighty hedge of protection securely around Mr. Miller and his family. May no weapon forged against them prevail. Protect them from any physical, emotional, and spiritual harm. Keep them safe from the enemy.

May Mr. Miller and his family know and be encouraged that the King of the Universe is with them wherever they go. May they experience the joy of the Lord. Bless him and his loved ones richly with all they need according to Your riches in glory.

Lord, Mr. Miller is Jewish, one of Your chosen people. We pray that Mr. Miller will come to recognize the true Messiah, Yeshua, as his own Lord and Savior. May he and his family be redeemed, restored, and fulfilled in You, the God of Israel, in Jesus’ Name, Amen.

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Belinda Brewster analyzes cultural, political, and world events from a biblical worldview. Belinda’s passion is to equip, support, and encourage parents and grandparents who are courageously battling against the spiritual and cultural forces impacting children and grandchildren. Photo Credit: Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks.