President Donald Trump on Friday announced that Stephen Miller will become his chief of staff to replace Susie Wiles, who will be moved to another position.
The news follows significant Republican losses in the midterm elections.
Miller, the president’s deputy chief of staff and a vocal proponent of the administration’s mass deportations policy agenda, will become the chief of staff starting on Nov. 9, he wrote in a post on Truth Social.
As for Wiles, who was his campaign manager before joining the White House, Trump said she will be moving to the “Trump Political operation.”
“I want to thank her for her service as Chief of Staff — She has done a great job,” he wrote.
In a post on X, Wiles wrote that Friday “is my last day as White House Chief of Staff” and that “serving President Trump in the White House has been the honor of a lifetime.”
“I’m so proud to have been a part of what we’ve accomplished together from securing our border and cutting taxes to strengthening our economy and putting America First,” she added. “More than anything, I’m grateful for the extraordinary people I’ve had the privilege of working alongside.”
“While my role may be changing, my commitment to the President and the mission never will.”
A White House official told The Epoch Times that Wiles submitted her resignation on Thursday evening.
On Friday afternoon, Trump told reporters that he “wanted to make a change” with Wiles’s departure.
“I think Susie’s done a very good job, great job. But I just wanted to make it. Stephen’s been great, and ... we gotta make moves. Sometimes in life, you have to make moves,” he said.
Trump added that Miller has “been with [him] from the beginning” and will “do a great job” managing White House operations.
The move comes as some figures on the right have called for Wiles to be removed in the wake of GOP midterm losses that handed control of Congress to Democrats. (More)
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