There’s been a little speculation about Katie Miller’s ethnicity, so here’s a reminder that her and her husband are white supremacists regardless of their actual ethnicity:
In the run-up to the 2016 election, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist literature, pushed racist im
The emails, which Miller sent to the conservative website Breitbart News in 2015 and 2016, showcase the extremist, anti-immigrant ideology that undergirds the policies he has helped create as an architect of Donald Trump’s presidency. These policies include reportedly setting arrest quotas for undocumented immigrants, an executive order effectively banning immigration from five Muslim-majority countries and a policy of family separation at refugee resettlement facilities that the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General said is causing “intense trauma” in children.
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Miller’s perspective on race and immigration across the emails is repetitious. When discussing crime, which he does scores of times, Miller focuses on offenses committed by nonwhites. On immigration, he touches solely on the perspective of severely limiting or ending nonwhite immigration to the United States. Hatewatch was unable to find any examples of Miller writing sympathetically or even in neutral tones about any person who is nonwhite or foreign-born.
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Miller sent a story from the white nationalist website VDARE to McHugh on Oct. 23, 2015, the emails show. White nationalist Peter Brimelow founded VDARE in 1999. The website traffics in the “white genocide” or “great replacement” myth, which suggests that nonwhite people are systematically and deliberately wiping white people off the planet.
McHugh started the email conversation by asking if Hurricane Patricia could drive refugees into the United States. The hurricane battered parts of Central America, Mexico and Texas, and the media heavily covered the storm. Miller replied to her by underscoring the possibility that Mexican survivors of the storm could be given temporary protected status (TPS), a George H.W. Bush-era policy that would enable them to live and work in the United States for a limited stay
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Miller recommended in a Sept. 6, 2015, email that Breitbart write about “The Camp of the Saints,” a racist French novel by Jean Raspail. Notably, “The Camp of the Saints” is popular among white nationalists and neo-Nazis because of the degree to which it fictionalizes the “white genocide” or “great replacement” myth into a violent and sexualized story about refugees.
The novel’s apocalyptic plot centers on a flotilla of Indian people who invade France, led by a nonwhite Indian-born antagonist referred to as the “turd eater” – a character who literally eats human feces. In one section, a white woman is raped to death by brown-skinned refugees. In another, a nationalist character shoots and kills a pro-refugee leftist over his support of race mixing. The white nationalist Social Contract Press plucked the 1973 book from relative obscurity and distributed it in the United States.
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While “The Camp of the Saints” was relatively obscure then, websites such as VDARE and the white nationalist American Renaissance helped make it a fixture in the white nationalist community. VDARE created an entire searchable tag called “Camp of the Saints.” At the time Miller flagged the book to Breitbart, VDARE had run more than 50 posts under “The Camp of the Saints” tagline, including some referring to Pope Francis’ rhetoric about accepting refugees. Sailer, who authored the VDARE post Miller had shared earlier, ran a story on the pope’s statements about accepting refugees on the same day Miller raised the issue with Breitbart.
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White nationalist Dylann Roof murdered nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina,in June 2015. Roof’s attack triggered a national conversation about racial hatred in the United States. In response, Amazon.com and other retailers made efforts to pull the Confederate flag from their websites and stores.
Miller sought to create a counternarrative to this news through Breitbart, the emails show. He emailed McHugh with the subject line “defies modern comprehension” on June 23, 2015, following the news about the retailers, and highlighted a statistic about the deaths of Confederate soldiers with a link to history.com:
Miller, June 23, 2015, 3:10 p.m. ET: “‘22.6 percent of Southern men who were between the ages of 20 and 24 in 1860 lost their lives because of the war.’” [history.com link]
McHugh told Hatewatch that she and Miller spoke on the phone about the subject of Amazon yanking Confederate flag merchandise after the email. Miller appears to refer to that call in his next email and suggests that McHugh write about how Amazon was selling “commie flags.”
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Before entering into politics, Miller was in contact with Brimelow, the VDARE founder, and Richard Spencer, who went on to become arguably the most notorious white nationalist in America. Spencer helped build the alt-right movement and was a central figure of the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017. Miller knew and interacted with these men while studying at Duke University as an undergraduate, according to a first-hand account and email evidence. The interactions with Brimelow occurred about eight years after he founded the white nationalist VDARE.
Miller and Spencer, while serving together as members of Duke’s Conservative Union, a politics-focused club for students, arranged for Brimelow to debate journalist and University of Oregon professor Peter Laufer in March 2007 on Mexican immigration to the United States.
— Michael Edison Hayden, 12 November 2019
Who is Stephen Miller's wife, Katie Miller? Here's what we know about the former deputy press secretary and DOGE spokesperson.
Born on October 4, 1991 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Katie Miller (née Waldman) was — like her future husband, Stephen Miller — born into an affluent Jewish family. Katie is the daughter of attorney Glenn Waldman and his wife, Sheryl Waldman. Specializing in business arbitration and mediation services, not to mention serving as an expert witness, Glenn has been named one of the Florida Legal Elite by Florida Trend Magazine since 2004 and has been Fort Lauderdale Illustrated's "Top Lawyer" for professional research services since 2020.
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Katie Miller attended Cypress Bay High School, a public school in Westland, Florida, where she was on the staff of the school newspaper, The Circuit. Alas, she apparently didn't make much of a name for herself during her tenure. "I never saw her take any initiative to do anything that would benefit the newspaper program," fellow Circuit staff member Cassia Laham told Vanity Fair in 2020.
However, it sounds she did have the initiative to create petitions against staff members. During her senior year, Miller took issue with AP English teacher Simone Waite's teaching of the Toni Morrison's classic "Beloved." The themes of the book, which takes place after the Civil War, include the lasting trauma of slavery, but apparently, Miller believed this was not appropriate for class. Miller subsequently started a petition in which she described her teacher's curriculum as "psychologically damaging" and "sickening."
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Katie Miller had experienced a few moments in the spotlight during the course of her first few years in Washington, DC, but they were nothing compared to what she experienced after joining Donald Trump's first administration as deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security.
This new position found Katie making regular appearances in front of the camera, including an October 2018 guest spot on Fox News where she claimed to Brian Kilmeade that a migrant caravan was some sort of ploy. "This caravan is being put together by NGOs and others mainly for media attention," she said. "You know, we've heard reports of these folks getting on buses and then getting off and walking for the cameras." The following year, Katie addressed reports of Border Patrol using tear gas on migrants at the border and defended the agents' actions. "Once again we have had a violent mob of migrants attempt to enter the United States illegally by attacking our agents with projectiles," she said, per CNN.
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During the course of her time at DOGE, Katie and Musk apparently got along swimmingly, even if the same couldn't necessarily be said for Musk and Stephen Miller. What's more, when Musk decided that the time had come for him to step away from DOGE in favor of returning to run his own company SpaceX, Katie made the surprising decision to follow Musk, albeit in a nonspecific capacity. As with DOGE, Katie's title remained decidedly nebulous, and she wouldn't confirm if she officially worked for Musk or one of his companies. As she told Reuters in July 2025, "My paycheck still comes from him."
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While making an appearance on Piers Morgan's "Uncensored" YouTube program on October 29, 2025, Katie Miller found herself in conversation with Cenk Uygur, co-host and co-creator of "The Young Turks," a progressive talk program that has been airing in one incarnation or another since 2002. On the episode of "Uncensored," Miller and Uygur participated in a panel which also consisted of former "The Biggest Loser" star Gillian Michaels and political analyst Omar Baddar, and it didn't take long for things to grow testy. While talking about Zohran Mamdani and Islamophobia, Miller accused Uygur of antisemitism, and Uygur pushed back. "It's very normal for a Miller to be completely and utterly lying," Uygur said. "You and your husband are supposed to be working for America. Not for Israel. I think you're betraying this country."
This set Miller off, and she told Morgan that she would stop appearing on the show if he didn't stop Uygur from making remarks that she deemed offensive. And then, then Miller took things even further, snapping at Uygur, "You better check your citizenship application and hope that everything was legal and correct." Uygur was born in Turkey and is a naturalized U.S. citizen.
"It's deeply ironic that the people who claimed to champion free speech are now trying to deport people who speak out against them," Uygur told HuffPost after the war of words. "If Princess Snowflake tries to deport everyone she loses a debate to, then we're going to start to run out of people."
— Will Harris, 10 November 2025
He helped design Trump's Muslim ban. Now, he will help the president-elect carry out his signature campaign promise: mass deportation.
But Trump's immigration plan hinges entirely on enforcement and removal, including mass deportation, underpinned by Miller's firm belief that immigration is something to be stopped, not managed. "The moment that President Trump puts his hand on that Bible and takes the oath of office, as he has said, the occupation ends and liberation day begins," Miller, who has been named deputy chief of staff for policy in the new administration, told Fox News onTuesday. "He will immediately sign executive orders sealing the border shut, beginning the largest deportation operation in American history." An alleged sympathizer of white nationalist ideals, as well as the grandson of Jewish immigrants, Miller has drawn up some of Trump’s hardest-line immigration policies and his most vitriolic speeches. "He was the architect of two of the most notorious policies of the first Trump administration: the Muslim ban and the family separation policy," said Naureen Shah, a lobbyist for the ACLU in Washington, D.C. "Who is the brains behind the worst of it? It’s Stephen Miller.”
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Throughout the campaign, Miller outlined how he expected a second Trump administration would operationalize the president's mass deportation promise. It involved the U.S. military, shifting federal law enforcement to deportation work, building out immigrant detention, revoking the legal status of some immigrants and ramping up removal flights, among other plans. Miller is also a proponent of ideas – borrowed from far-right extremists – that include deporting families along with their U.S. citizen children, stripping some U.S. citizens of their naturalized citizenship and ending birthright citizenship, which is written into the Constitution and guarantees citizenship for everyone born in the United States. Experts say Miller's political success is both a testament to, and a consequence of, the rightward shift in how Americans think of immigrants and immigration.
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When Miller's Jewish family fled the horrors of Jewish persecution in Eastern Europe at the turn of the 20th century, according to Guerrero, they found refuge in the United States. His paternal grandparents and maternal great-grandparents immigrated through Ellis Island. He grew up in Santa Monica, California, in a traditional "liberal Democrat" Jewish household, Miller said in a 2021 episode of Gingrich's podcast, Newt's World. According to Guerrero's biography, Miller, a contrarian by nature, began rebelling early against the liberal bent of his family, hometown and high school. He tuned in to right-wing talk radio and began promoting far-right ideologies, including anti-immigrant ideas. He found early mentors in conservatives like David Horowitz and among right-wing radio hosts like Larry Elder and the late Rush Limbaugh, according to Guerrero.
— Lauren Villagran
