Stephen Miller takes over as chief of staff and circulates new White House hierarchy memo
An internal memo circulating in the Trump administration reshapes White House authority under Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, giving cabinet secretaries more control over their own messaging.
Stephen Miller has taken over the role of White House chief of staff, and an internal memo circulating within the Trump administration this week lays out a new hierarchy of authority. Fox News Digital, which obtained the document on an exclusive basis, reports that Miller assumed the post on a Monday. The memo changes how federal agencies deal with the White House at a time when the administration is also facing public protest over its foreign policy.
The most significant change concerns cabinet secretaries. Under the memo, the cabinet secretary post will be renamed Director of Cabinet Relations, and the restructuring is designed to give secretaries more control over their own communications. Sources say that before the change, Susie Wiles had centralized communications for the entire administration. Wiles did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
A former official accused Wiles of threatening cabinet secretaries with attacks in the media. The accusation came from one source and has not been independently confirmed. According to the sources, the redistribution of authority was felt most directly by the agencies themselves, which had operated under the earlier centralized system.
The memo also sets out new reporting lines inside the staff. The Office of Presidential Scheduling will report to Chamberlain Harris. Caleb Orr, a former State Department official, will become chief of staff for policy. Under the new structure, the policy process will run through the deputy chief of staff for policy and national security adviser, which places policy development inside a defined chain rather than spreading it across departments.
Protest against the administration's policies was also visible in New York. At a Veterans Day parade in Manhattan on November 11, veterans protested the Trump administration's war with Iran, according to Raw Story. Protesters cited 23 American deaths and thousands of Iranian deaths in the conflict. Amnesty International reports that more than 270 Iranian children have been killed. Protesters also referred to the roughly $4 billion the United States gives Israel each year, and to a considered shift of that aid to the Pentagon.
The Haitian American Veterans Association marched in the parade and protested deportations and the loss of Temporary Protected Status, or TPS. Veterans interviewed were critical of Trump and of Defense Secretary Hegseth. One Vietnam veteran declined to discuss politics.
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