Trump: Stephen Miller at ‘top of the totem poll’ for new national security adviser
by Sarah Fortinsky - 05/05/25 8:00 AM ET
President Trump confirmed late Sunday that deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller is at the top of his list of possible contenders to permanently fill the role of national security adviser.
“Stephen Miller is at the top of the totem pole. I think he sort of indirectly already has that job,” Trump told NewsNation’s Libbey Dean aboard Air Force One when asked whether Miller was under consideration for the post.
“He’s a very valued person in the administration,” Trump said.
Trump added that his timeline to pick a replacement is “within six months.”
Trump last week reassigned former national security adviser Mike Waltz to be his new nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. At the same time, he tapped Secretary of State Marco Rubio to serve as national security adviser on an interim basis.
Axios reported Friday that Miller was “gathering buzz” in Washington amid the search for Waltz’s replacement.
Miller has been a leading force in Trump’s immigration crackdown, as the president’s homeland security adviser, and is often a public face of the administration’s most divisive deportation actions.
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