Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.) had a one-word reaction to news that President Donald Trump named Stephen Miller to be his White House Chief of Staff.
“FAFO,” which is short for “Fuck around and find out,” McBride told The Political Spectrum over text message.
The president nominated Miller, his deputy chief of staff and longtime adviser, to be his White House chief of staff.
Miller, the architect of Trump’s mass deportation policy, previously served as deputy White House chief of staff. He will replace Susie Wiles, who managed Trump’s 2024 re-election campaign alongside Chris LaCivita.
“I am pleased to announce that Mr. Stephen Miller, the current Deputy Chief of Staff of the Trump Administration, and one of my most trusted advisors, will become the Chief of Staff starting Monday, November 9, 2026,” Trump announced on Truth Social on Friday.
Trump’s announcement came just days after Democrats won overwhelming majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Miller served as a senior adviser to the president in the first Trump administration. But his power significantly increased in the second administration, having been the driving force behind Trump’s mass deportation policies.
In 2024, Miller laid out the plans for a future Trump administration at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
“You would establish large scale staging grounds for removal flights,” Miller said. “So you grab illegal immigrants and then you move them to the staging grounds, and that’s what the planes are waiting for federal law enforcement to remove those illegals home.”
After Custom and Border Protection officials shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Miller defended the officers.
“A would-be assassin tried to murder federal law enforcement and the official Democrat account sides with the terrorists,” he tweeted in January of this year.
McBride, the first openly transgender woman elected to Congress, won her second term in Congress on Tuesday.
During her first term in Congress, McBride faced considerable discrimination, with Republican colleagues misgendering her. Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina introduced legislation to prevent McBride and other transgender people from using the women’s restrooms on Capitol Hill.
Mace will leave Congress after she placed fifth in the Republican primary for governor and Trump endorsed one of her opponents.
Given this is Trump and therefore not your average lame duck president, what do you think are the things we need to pay close attention to now for both sides? Loving your work from Australia