NY Times' Maggie Haberman flags 'overlooked' little detail in Trump aide's nomination - NewsBreak
The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman pointed out what she believes is a somewhat “overlooked” aspect to what will be the role of anti-immigration hard-liner Stephen Miller in Donald Trump’s second administration. Miller, the architect of Trump’s first-term anti-immigration policies, will serve as the White House deputy chief of staff for policy when Trump returns to office on Monday, Haberman noted to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.
But the longtime Trump aide will also serve as homeland security adviser, Haberman said.
He will reportedly seek to influence policy on immigration alongside Trump’s new “border czar” Tom Homan, she added.
It “remains to be seen” if Trump will keep all his campaign promises (such as building detention camps to hold undocumented immigrants ahead of deportation), acknowledged the journalist, who is also a political analyst for CNN and has covered Trump for years. “We’re going to see what this looks like,” she said.“But I expect that Stephen Miller is going to continue with what he was doing in the first term and, in many cases, was stopped by the agencies that oversee immigration.”
Trump will reportedly sign more than 200 executive actions on his first day back in the Oval Office. Some, per reports, will be aimed at shutting down the U.S.-Mexico border and curbing immigration.
The meeting between Zuckerberg, the billionaire co-founder of Facebook and CEO of Meta, and Miller, a powerful figure within Donald Trump’s inner circle and the architect of his hard-line immigration policies, happened shortly after the president-elect won the election.
Miller told Zuckerberg he had a chance to help change the United States – on Trump’s terms, sources familiar with the conversation told the New York Times . Those terms include ditching DEI policies that corporate America, such as Meta, had openly embraced roughly four years ago during the Black Lives Matter movement.
Stephen Miller, an influential Trump adviser, is held largely responsible for creating Trump’s hard-line immigration policies. He reportedly met with Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg shortly after the election (AP)
Zuckerberg reportedly agreed and signaled that changes were coming to the company to oversees Facebook and Instagram.
Sources familiar with the conversation said Zuckerberg blamed Meta’s former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, for pushing inclusivity policies at the company.
Facebook also announced it would cease its fact-checking program and instead rely on community notes – a similar function implemented on X, the platform owned by Trump’s close friend Elon Musk.
Fact-checkers, who pushed back on Trump’s false claims of mass election fraud after the 2020 election, were another ire of the president-elect.
Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, has recently become friendly with Trump. He reportedly talked DEI programs with Miller at a recent meeting (AP)
The Trump-inspired changes to the tech giant’s extraordinarily influential platform are happening as the United States prepares for a second, but far more calculated, Trump presidency. Zuckerberg and other tech giants such as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, nOpenAI CEO Sam Altman and TikTok CEO Shou Chew have immediately flocked to the president ahead of inauguration, hoping to make nice with him before he implements sweeping changes across the country.
With four years of presidential experience, and another four years of building grudges, Trump is coming into the White House fully prepared to upend the policies he dislikes.
He’s relying on influential people such as Miller to help him deliver on those.
The Independent
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