President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller argued Trump’s plans to secure the border would be “the biggest domestic policy win” in 50 years, adding that it would finally accomplish what Republicans have spent decades saying they would do.
Miller was asked on Sunday about the plans for border security and whether they would be prioritized over Trump’s plans for tax reform legislation, the latter of which could be delayed to later in 2025. The incoming deputy chief of staff, however, said both would be placed on a “fast track” for the administration, and previewed what the plans for the border would entail.
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“John Thune and Lindsey Graham have promised that they can get a full funding package for the border, the most significant border security investment in American history, which would be the biggest domestic policy win in at least 50 years, to the president’s desk in January or early February,” Miller said on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. “That would mean a massive increase in ICE officers working on the deportation operation that Tom Homan just laid out, that would mean a historic increase in border agents, a pay raise for both, full funding for military operations, full funding for ICE beds, full funding for air and marine operations, full funding for all of the barriers and technology that you need to ensure there’s never another gotaway entering this country.”
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Miller added that while Republicans have spent years saying they would get this done, Trump would ensure that it “is going to happen.”
Additionally, Miller detailed how the Trump administration’s tax reform will be “the greatest tax bill that we’ve ever seen,” though acknowledged that discussions about the tax reform are ongoing. However, he stressed that discussions on delaying tax reform are not being held, and that Trump would get to work in the first days of his administration.
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Ahead of Trump’s inauguration in January, New York City Mayor Eric Adams will meet with incoming border czar Tom Homan on Thursday. Adams said he would not be “warring with the [Trump] administration” and is instead going to work with it.
Adams’s openness to work with the Trump administration contrasts with other Democrats who have voiced opposition to Trump’s planned deportations. In response, Homan has questioned “what’s cruel” about these deportations, arguing that protecting the public is the “No. 1 responsibility” of elected officials.