Trump to appoint Stephen Miller, immigration hardliner, as deputy chief of policy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : Miller has been a frequent presence during Trump's 2024 campaign, according to the Associated Press, often traveling with him and speaking ahead of Trump at his rallies.
63% : Miller worked in the White House during Trump's first administration, serving as a senior adviser to Trump and as director of speechwriting.
44% : Project 2025, a document which consists of more than 900 pages, outlines plans and strategies on how Trump and his allies could dismantle the US government.
36% : Although Trump has not officially announced the appointment yet, CNN reported the news earlier on Monday, citing two sources familiar with the matter, and later on Monday, vice-president-elect JD Vance appeared to confirm the report in a post on X, where he reacted congratulated Miller.
35% : In 2022, Miller reportedly testified to the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection on the US capitol, where he was asked about whether Trump encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol that day.
28% : The Axios report stated that if Trump returned to the White House, Miller and other aides planned to "dramatically change the government's interpretation of civil rights-era laws to focus on 'anti-white racism' rather than discrimination against people of colour".Trump's spokesperson, Steven Cheung, told Axios: "As President Trump has said, all staff, offices, and initiatives connected to [Joe] Biden's un-American policy will be immediately terminated.
23% : In an interview with the New York Times last year, Miller also outlined plans in the event that Trump was re-elected, to restrict legal and illegal immigration.
22% : Miller reportedly defended Trump, stating that his use of the word "we" in his remarks outside the Capitol that day was not an effort to incite the crowd to storm the Capitol, but rather a rhetorical device used in political speeches for decades.
20% : In April this year, Axios reported that Miller was helping to drive a plan to tackle supposed "anti-white racism" if Trump was re-elected.
12% : This lead a number of Democrats to call on him to resign and more 50 civil rights groups penned a letter to Trump, urging him to fire Miller.

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