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Miller’s Crossing

As Trump’s senior advisor gets louder and bolder—describing protesters as terrorists and inconvenient court rulings as “insurrection”—some Republicans are beginning to worry that the administration’s hard-line power grabs will backfire… and maybe even hurt the country, too.

Stephen Miller
Unlike Trump, Republicans on the Hill have to face voters next year in a midterm that is historically challenging for the party in power, and Miller’s rhetoric “doesn’t help the cause” of keeping the majority, a House G.O.P. aide told Puck. Photo: Justin Merriman/Getty Images
Leigh Ann Caldwell
October 8, 2025

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In August, for his 40th birthday, Stephen Miller was thrown a surprise party fit for the most important staffer in Trump’s government. Cabinet secretaries (Marco Rubio, Scott Bessent, Kristi Noem), fellow West Wing officials (including Susie Wiles and James Blair), and MAGA luminaries like Fox’s Laura Ingraham and the commentator Mark Levin all gathered to fete him at Ned’s, the swank members-only club a block from the White House.