(JTA) — Jewish groups joined a coalition of national civil rights organizations in demanding that President Donald Trump remove Stephen Miller as his senior policy advisor over his support for white supremacists. The Anti-Defamation League, Bend the Arc, and the Union for Reform Judaism signed a letter sent earlier this week to Trump on behalf…
(JTA) — White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist materials to the right-wing website Breitbart News as the 2016 presidential election neared. Many of the 900 emails sent from March 2015 to June 2016 “showcase the extremist, anti-immigrant ideology that undergirds the policies he has helped create as an architect of Donald…
Senior White House Adviser Stephen Miller is getting engaged to Katie Waldman, Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary. News of their relationship first broke in September, when Waldman, 28, took on the role. Before that, she worked as the communications director for Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.), and before that as deputy press secretary for the…
In one tweet, Katie Waldman was announced as Vice President Mike Pence’s new press secretary and outed as White House senior adviser Stephen Miller’s girlfriend. Waldman steps into the Pence role October 1 after serving as communications director for Sen. Martha McSally of Arizona, NBC News reported. Before that, the 27-year-old was the deputy press…
White House senior adviser Stephen Miller condemned Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez for her “sinful comment” comparing detention facilities on the United States-Mexico border to concentration camps. On Fox News on Sunday, Miller explained that he was especially insulted by the “historical smear” because he is Jewish. “As a Jew, as an American Jew, I am profoundly…
Republican senators were “underwhelmed” by White House senior advisers Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller’s proposal to overhaul the United States’ immigration system, CNN reported. “I think folks in the room were underwhelmed” with the “whole plan,” a senior GOP official told CNN. The pitch meeting was held after weeks of discussions with key officials on…
White House senior advisor Stephen Miller advocated for a secret plan to conduct a “blitz” arrest of thousands of migrant families, The Washington Post reported Monday. The plan, which would have required coordinated arrests in people’s homes in 10 of the largest cities in the country, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, was nixed…
Democratic lawmakers are demanding that Stephen Miller, the Trump White House advisor reported to be the animating figure behind a string of controversial policies, appear soon before the House of Representatives. “It’s clear that he’s the one pulling the strings,” Rep. Kathleen Rice of New York told the Washington Post. “And if he’s going to…
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