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They are the Washington couple at the center of power in the Trump administration. They also ride the opposite sides of an explosive bursting Between President Donald Trump and the billionaire Elon Musk.
CNN reported last week that Katie Miller, Stephen Miller’s wife, Trump’s assistant chief of staff, would leave her main role in the White House as a spokesperson and counselor of the Elon Musk government. She was on her way to work for Musk while he started to lead his businesses again, helping Titan technology to manage and organize interviews unrelated to her time in government.
But a few days later, in the midst of the smoking ruin of Musk and the epic collapse of Trump on Thursday on social networks, this work suddenly took a whole new layer.
Among the attacks, the two men have embarked on each other were Musk approving the possibility of dismissing Trump and installing the vice-president JD Vance in his place. Trump, in turn, increased the possibility of terminating federal contracts for Musk companies.
The episode left the thousands of the contradictory sides of the biggest break in Trump’s second mandate, causing gossip among the aid of the White House and speculation cycles on the way the benefits could have an impact on the political fortune of one of the most powerful couples of Trump in Washington, where the loyalty reigns.
“Everyone is talking about it,” said a former Trump staff member at CNN.
Katie Miller was in Texas last week for the series of interviews that Musk kept with journalists from space and technology while SpaceX Starship had its ninth test flight. This is where Musk first expressed that he was “disappointed” from the Republican’s domestic political bill in a Interview with CBS News.
Her X is now a constant flow of compulsory messages on Musk and its companies, with a banner photo of a SpaceX rocket launching in space and a biography that says: “wife of @stephenm”. Her only publication on social networks on Friday was an answer with emojis who laughed at a modified photo of her husband as an employee of Home Depot attached to a position on immigration raids in the channel stores.
A former colleague told CNN that she will finally have to make a choice.
“She has the choice between Elon and Trump, but that cannot be both,” said the administration manager.
Musk did not follow Stephen Miller on X Thursday, although the two thousandrs continued to follow Musk on the platform until Friday.
There are divided opinions on the impact of the situation on the ascent of Stephen Miller.
Among the closest advisers to Trump, many believe that he is only exceeded by the chief of staff Susie Wiles, fueling speculation among some to find out if he could take over if the tricks decide to move on.
“All this will make it more complicated,” said a senior white house official at CNN. “Katie being paid by Elon is not good for Stephen.”
Another senior manner of the White House greatly rejected the idea that this episode with Musk would have an impact on Miller in any way with the president.
“Beside Susie, Trump trusts and relies the most on Stephen,” said the manager, adding that the president and the best brass understood that his wife working for Musk had nothing to do with Stephen or the current state of events.
Katie Miller refused to comment on this story.
Deeply connected and influencing in republican circles and at the highest level of government, Stephen Miller and Katie Miller (née Waldman) gathered during Trump’s first mandate in 2018. He was a main advisor and editor of speeches at the White House; She was part of the public affairs team of the Ministry of Homeland Security and in the process of becoming director of communications for President Mike Pence.
He has developed a reputation as an architect of some of the most rigorous immigration policies in the administration, becoming an influential assistant and confidence on the Trump orbit.
She developed her own reputation as a fervent supporter of these policies, formerly reflecting on a trip to the American-Mexican border while the administration was criticized for its children’s separation policy.
“My family and colleagues told me that when I have children, I will think of separations differently. But I don’t think … DHS sent me to the border to see the separations for me – to try to make me more compassionate – but that didn’t work,” said Miller. “”
The couple got married at Trump hotel in Washington, DC in February 2020. Trump attended the wedding.
During the four years following Trump’s departure, both turned to a return from Trump to the White House. Stephen Miller launched a non -profit conservative group, America First Legal Foundation, who was partly prelude to Trump’s second mandate.
Katie Miller went to the private sector, where she has consulted a number of large companies, including Apple. They also raised three young children.
Stephen Miller returned to the White House in January with a vast mandate, deeply involved in numerous initiatives for the president’s signature policy and has still independent from the first mandate. Katie Miller joined the The administration also, working on behalf of Doge and Musk, which had become a new figure in Trump’s orbit after being an active campaign substitute and a 2024 megadonor.
Like Musk, Katie Miller worked in the White House as a “employee of the special government”, which limits the number of days that can be worked within the administration.
While their professional lives have intertwined, the couple also became personally close to Musk, socializing outside of work.
In the warmth of the Thursday afternoon social media force test, Stephen Miller was to appear in the broadcast of Larry Kudlow on Fox Business Network – an appearance that was canceled.
“We lost Mr. Miller because of a meeting at the Oval Office. Perfectly understandable. When I was in government, it would happen all the time. We had to kill a television program. You are President Beck and Call,” Kudlow said when it was broadcast.
This is not the first time that Trump has separated a marital relationship. During his first mandate, Trump was unleashed on the husband of one of his best advisers, Kellyanne Conway. Her husband, George Conway, had been intensely critical of Trump on social networks.
“It’s a work suddenly. There is no doubt about it. But I really don’t know him,” said Trump at the time of George Conway. “I think he is doing a bad service to a wonderful woman.”
In 2023, the couple announced that they deposited the divorce.
George Conway, a prolific user of the Musk X platform and the ardent anti-top figure, posted tens of times on Trump-Musk spit.
“Does anyone have updates on Katie Miller?” he request Thursday evening.