U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to forge ahead with his aggressive immigration crackdown driven by top aide Stephen Miller and a new homeland secretary nominee who shares Trump’s hardline view, current and former U.S. officials and lawmakers said.
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But Miller – the White House deputy chief of staff and the architect of Trump’s immigration agenda – retains control of the issue, three U.S. officials said. And Trump’s pick to become homeland secretary, U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, is viewed as closely aligned with Trump’s approach.
“Stephen is a survivor,” one of the officials said, requesting anonymity to discuss internal dynamics. The official said Noem’s firing was not a referendum on Trump’s restrictive agenda, but rather on the execution of it.
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{snip} Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, said funding talks are being run out of the White House and that he does not expect Noem’s firing to break the stalemate.
“I think we’re better off without her, but she wasn’t running the department,” Murphy said on Thursday. “Stephen Miller runs that department and will continue to run the department so I don’t really think much will change.”
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