Age, Biography, and Wiki
Stephen Miller was born on August 23, 1985, making him 39 years old as of 2025. He is an American political advisor who rose to prominence during his tenure in the Trump administration. Miller served as the White House deputy chief of staff for policy and was a senior advisor to President Donald Trump.
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| Date of Birth | 23 August 1985 |
| Age | 39 Years |
| Birth Place | Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Horoscope | Leo |
| Country | U.S |
Height, Weight & Measurements
Currently, there is limited public information available about Stephen Miller's height and weight.
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Dating & Relationship Status
Stephen Miller is married and has three children. However, detailed information about his relationship and personal life is not extensively documented in public sources.
As a speechwriter for Trump, Miller helped write Trump's 2017 inaugural address. He was a key adviser from the early days of Trump's presidency. An immigration hardliner, Miller was a primary author of Trump's travel ban, the administration's reduction of refugees accepted to the United States, and Trump's policy of separating migrant children from their parents. He prevented the publication of internal administration studies that showed that refugees had a net positive effect on government revenues. Miller reportedly played a central role in the resignation in April 2019 of Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, who he believed was insufficiently hawkish on immigration.
Miller, a real estate investor, and Miriam (née Glosser). His mother's ancestors Louis W. Glosser (originally named Wolf-Lieb Glosser or Glatzer/Glotzer) and his wife Bessie emigrated to the United States from the Russian Empire's Antopol, in what is present-day Belarus, escaping the 1903–06 anti-Jewish pogroms in Belarus and other parts of the Russian Empire. When his great-grandmother arrived in the U.S. in 1906, she spoke only Yiddish, the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe. Miller's uncle recalls that, when Wolf-Lieb Glosser reached Ellis Island on January 7, 1903 with $8 to his name, "though fluent in Polish, Russian and Yiddish, he understood no English."
Jean Guerrero, who wrote a book on Miller, noted that this conversion coincided with family upheaval; his father Michael facing financial difficulties, Miller moved out of a wealthy neighborhood and was forced to go to Santa Monica High School, a diverse public school. Miller riled his classmates multiple times with statements and stunts, many of them targeting the minority student population. He told Latino students to speak only English. Early on, Miller began to appear on conservative talk radio; Elder reportedly invited Miller on his radio show as a guest a total of 69 times. Miller wrote in 2002 a letter to the Santa Monica Outlook to complain about the school's multiculturalism and its response to the September 11 attacks.
Miller and the Duke Conservative Union helped co-member Richard Spencer, a Duke graduate student at the time, with fundraising and promotion for an immigration policy debate in March 2007 between Peter Laufer, an open-borders activist and University of Oregon professor, and journalist Peter Brimelow, founder of the anti-immigration website VDARE. Spencer later became an important figure in the white supremacist movement and president of the National Policy Institute; he coined the term "alt-right". In a 2016 interview, Spencer said he had mentored Miller at Duke. Describing their close relationship, Spencer said that he was "kind of glad no one's talked about this", for fear of harming Trump. In a later blog post, he said the relationship had been exaggerated. Miller has said he has "absolutely no relationship with Mr. Spencer" and that he "completely repudiate[s] his views, and his claims are 100 percent false".
Miller and Sessions were described as the chief champions of the Trump administration's decision to start to separate migrant children from their parents when they crossed the U.S. border. Miller argued that such a policy would deter migrants from coming to the United States. Miller held a meeting at the White House to pressure Department of Justice officials to prosecute border crossers as criminals, which was used as the was the basis for separating families. In April 2018, Miller and Gene Hamilton wrote a Presidential memorandum directing agencies to end catch and release. They also wrote a letter by Attorney General Sessions, articulating a "zero tolerance" policy, which aimed to prosecute all adults who were arrested by DHS for illegal entry. Miller told the Times that voters would support the White House "90-10". After Miller gave an on-the-record interview to the Times, the White House requested that the Times not publish portions of it on its podcast, The Daily; the Times acceded to the request.
On November 13, 2024, Trump confirmed Miller would serve as deputy chief of staff for policy and Homeland Security Advisor. Miller met with Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg in January 2025, pushing him to adopt policies more favorable to Trump. He has been described as having developed a close relationship with Elon Musk. Miller has been described as one of the most powerful officials during Trump's second term.
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Net Worth and Salary
Stephen Miller's net worth is estimated to range from $1 million to $5 million as of 2025, depending on the source. His income comes from various sources including his government salary, media appearances, book deals, consulting opportunities, and real estate holdings. During his time in the White House, his annual salary was reportedly between $150,000 and $180,000.
Career, Business, and Investments
Stephen Miller began his political career as a communications director and speechwriter for several U.S. lawmakers. His breakthrough came when he joined Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016 and became a key advisor. Miller played a crucial role in crafting hardline immigration policies, such as the travel ban and family separation policy. Post-administration, he has likely increased his earnings through speaking engagements and political consulting.
A graduate of Duke University, Miller was involved in conservative causes during his youth, serving as the president of the Duke chapter of Horowitz's Students for Academic Freedom and writing conservative columns for the school newspaper. He pursued a career in politics after his graduation, first working as a press secretary for U.S. representatives Michele Bachmann and John Shadegg. He became the communications director for Senator Jeff Sessions in 2009, who later became the United States attorney general under President Trump. In 2016 he joined Donald Trump's presidential campaign, later joining the first Trump administration as a senior advisor to the president and the White House director of speechwriting.
As a White House spokesman, Miller on multiple occasions made false and unsubstantiated claims regarding widespread electoral fraud. Emails leaked in November 2019 showed that Miller had promoted articles from white nationalist publications VDARE and American Renaissance, and had espoused conspiracy theories. Miller is on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of extremists. After leaving the first Trump administration, he founded the America First Legal Foundation. In November 2024, it was announced that Miller would serve as Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security advisor in his second term, taking office on January 20, 2025. He is the youngest person to serve as homeland security advisor and the first millennial to hold the position. In Trump's second term, Miller emerged as one of the most powerful Trump administration officials and a key author of numerous policies.
Miller attributed his conservativism to Guns, Crime, and Freedom, a book by Wayne LaPierre opposing gun control. Miller cited Rush Limbaugh's book The Way Things Ought To Be as his favorite. In his yearbook, Miller quoted Theodore Roosevelt: "There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism". According to Larry Elder, one of his mentors, Miller was already reading Ayn Rand and the Federalist Papers in high school. David Horowitz was an influential figure in Miller's life; Horowitz' contacts helped Miller kickstart his career. Miller invited Horowitz to speak, first at the high school and later at Duke University; both institution vetoed the event.
After graduating from college, Miller began to work as a press secretary for Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, a Tea Party Republican, after David Horowitz connected them. Though most of Miller's work for Bachmann was unrelated to immigration, he helped influence her rhetoric about undocumented immigrants. After an undocumented immigrant near Bachmann's district crashed her car into a school bus, killing four children, Miller pushed Bachmann to talk about the incident on television; Bachmann called the incident an example of "anarchy versus the rule of law". Horowitz later helped Miller to get a position with Congressman John Shadegg in early 2009.
In 2009, Miller began working for Alabama senator Jeff Sessions, who was later appointed United States attorney general. He rose to the position of Sessions' communications director. Sessions introduced Miller to anti-immigration think tanks such as Federation for American Immigration Reform, NumbersUSA and Center for Immigration Studies, as well as the Heritage Foundation. In the 113th Congress, Miller played a role in defeating the bipartisan Gang of Eight's proposed immigration reform bill. As communications director, Miller was responsible for writing many of the speeches Sessions gave about the bill. Miller worked closely with conservative media such as Breitbart News in promoting an anti-immigration agenda. During this time, he got acquainted with Breitbart News co-founder Steve Bannon.
According to former Department of Homeland Security Miles Taylor, in April 2018, Miller argued with Paul F. Zukunft and advocated for a drone attack on a migrant ship heading for the US, saying people onboard were not protected under the US constitution as they were in international waters; a spokesperson for Miller denied the report. In May 2018, it was reported Miller had attended a controversial meeting which included George Nader on behalf of two Arab princes, Wikistrat CEO Joel Zamel, Erik Prince, and Donald Trump Jr., on August 3, 2016. The New York Times had also reported in November 2017 that Miller was in regular contact with George Papadopoulos during the campaign about his discussions with Russian government officials.
In the wake of the United States' assassination of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Miller allegedly suggested "dipping [al-Baghdadi's head] in pig's blood and parading it around to warn other terrorists", according to former defense secretary Mark Esper in his 2022 book A Sacred Oath. Esper called Miller's idea a "war crime"; Miller denied that this took place. While in the Trump administration, Miller met repeatedly with British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, whom Miller described himself as a "huge fan" of. During the meetings, which were held off the White House grounds, Miller and Johnson "swapped speech-writing ideas and tips". In October 2019, Miller was against the resignation of acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan. In 2019, Miller started collaborating with Jared Kushner, who was given portfolio over immigration; with Miller writing the parts of Kushner's immigration plan that address asylum and family detention.
Miller has been given significant influence over the Department of Justice, with Attorney General Pam Bondi taking a largely implementing role. Miller has criticized federal judges as "Marxist judges" and claimed they were carrying out a "judicial coup" by restricting the powers of the US president. In April 2025, Miller became a leading official in the Trump administration's actions against higher education, revoking federal funding to universities to demand policy changes.
Social Network
Stephen Miller maintains a relatively low profile on social media platforms, but he is active in political commentary and consulting, which contributes to his public presence.
In November 2019, the Southern Poverty Law Center acquired more than 900 emails Miller sent Breitbart News writer Katie McHugh between 2015 and 2016. The emails became the basis for an exposé that showed that Miller had enthusiastically pushed the views of white nationalist publications such as American Renaissance and VDARE, as well as the far-right conspiracy website Infowars, and promoted The Camp of the Saints, a French novel circulating among neo-Nazis, shaping both White House policy and Breitbart's coverage of racial politics. In response to the exposé, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham called the SPLC an "utterly discredited, long-debunked far-left smear organization." More than 80 Democratic members of Congress called for Miller's resignation in light of his emails. On November 13, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) started a petition that had reached more than 20,000 signatures by November 16. According to The Daily Beast, seven "senior Trump administration officials with knowledge of Miller's standing with the president and top staffers have all individually told The Daily Beast that the story did not endanger Miller's position, or change Trump's favorable view of him. Two of them literally laughed at the mere suggestion that the Hatewatch exposé could have toppled or hobbled the top Trump adviser." In July 2020, Miller was added on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of extremists.
In a February 2017 appearance on CBS' Face the Nation, Miller criticized the federal courts for blocking Trump's travel ban, accusing the judiciary of having "taken far too much power and become, in many cases, a supreme branch of government ... Our opponents, the media and the whole world will soon see as we begin to take further actions, that the powers of the president to protect our country are very substantial and will not be questioned." Miller's assertion was met with criticism from legal experts, such as Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute (who said that the administration's comments could undercut public confidence in the judiciary) and Cornell Law School professor Jens David Ohlin (who said that the statement showed "an absurd lack of appreciation for the separation of powers" set forth in the Constitution). In the same appearance, Miller falsely said there was significant voter fraud in the 2016 presidential election and that "thousands of illegal voters were bused in" to New Hampshire. Miller did not provide any evidence in support of the statements; The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler found that Miller has on multiple occasions made false or unsubstantiated claims regarding electoral fraud.
On January 7, 2018, Miller appeared on Jake Tapper's State of the Union on CNN. In the course of the interview, Miller called Steve Bannon's comments about the Trump Tower meeting in Michael Wolff's book Fire and Fury "grotesque". Miller then went on to state, "The president is a political genius... who took down the Bush dynasty, who took down the Clinton dynasty, who took down the entire media complex". Tapper accused Miller of dodging questions, while Miller questioned the legitimacy of CNN as a news broadcaster, and as the interview became more contentious, with both participants talking over each other, Tapper ended the interview and continued to the next news story. After the interview was over, Miller refused to leave the CNN studio and had to be escorted out by security.
In their coverage, multiple publications (such as The Washington Post, Washington Monthly and U.S. News & World Report) commented that the distinction Miller made between the Statue of Liberty and Lazarus's poem has been a popular talking point among the white supremacist segments of the alt-right. The Post's Michelle Ye Hee Lee stated that "Neither got it quite right about the Statue of Liberty ... While the poem itself was not a part of the original statue, it actually was commissioned in 1883 to help raise funds for the pedestal" and "gave another layer of meaning to the statue beyond its abolitionist message."
Education
Stephen Miller graduated from Duke University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree.
In 2007, Miller earned his bachelor's degree from Duke University, where he studied political science. He served as president of the Duke chapter of Horowitz's Students for Academic Freedom and wrote conservative columns for the school newspaper. Miller gained national attention for his defense of the students who were wrongly accused of rape in the Duke lacrosse case. While attending Duke, Miller organized the "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" and accused poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou of "racial paranoia" and described student organization Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán (MEChA) as a "radical national Hispanic group that believes in racial superiority".
Duke University's former senior vice president, John Burness, told The News & Observer in February 2017 that, while at Duke, Miller "seemed to assume that if you were in disagreement with him, there was something malevolent or stupid about your thinking—incredibly intolerant." According to Jane Stancill of The News & Observer, during the Duke lacrosse rape hoax, Miller's was the "lonely voice insisting that the players were innocent." History professor KC Johnson described Duke's atmosphere during the case as not "conducive to speaking up" and praised Miller's role in it: "I think it did take a lot of courage, and he has to get credit for that." Miller devoted more of his school paper column, "Miller Time," to the lacrosse scandal than any other topic.
In September 2017, The New York Times reported that Miller stopped the Trump administration from showing the public an internal study by the Department of Health and Human Services that found that refugees had a net positive effect on government revenues. Miller insisted that only the costs of refugees be publicized, not the revenues refugees bring in.
According to Chaos Under Heaven, a book by Josh Rogin, Miller was part of a group of officials that wanted Trump to "speed the downfall" of the Chinese Communist Party and that "believed in economic nationalism, the return of manufacturing from abroad, and the protection of domestic industries, even at the expense of free trade". In early 2018, Miller proposed stop providing student visas to Chinese nationals, making it impossible for Chinese citizens to study in the United States. Miller argued that a ban was necessary to reduce Chinese espionage, but that another benefit was that it would hurt elite universities with staff and students critical of Trump. Within the Trump administration, Miller's idea gained support from trade advisor Peter Navarro, but also faced opposition, in particular from Terry Branstad, the ambassador to China, who argued that such a ban would harm US trade to China and hurt small American universities more than the elite ones.
After Trump lost the 2020 election and failed to get the result overturned in courts or state legislatures, on December 14, Miller described on television a plan to send "alternate" slates of electors to Congress. That day, as the official Electoral College votes were being tallied, groups of self-appointed Republican "alternate electors" met in seven swing states and drafted fraudulent certificates of ascertainment. Since these alternate slates were not signed by the governors or secretaries of state of the states they claim to represent, they had no legal status, but could have been introduced as challenges to the true results when Congress counted the electoral votes on January 6, 2021. The watchdog group American Oversight published the documents in March 2021, but they received little attention until January 2022, when it was reported that the January 6 committee was investigating them. Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel announced in January 2022 that after a months-long investigation she had asked the U.S. Justice Department to open a criminal investigation.
On April7, 2021, Miller launched the America First Legal Foundation, a conservative legal organization. The foundation was previously listed as a supporter of Project 2025 and appeared on its advisory board, though the group later asked to be removed from it. Miller himself appeared on a promotional video for Project 2025. The foundation has filed dozens of lawsuits regarding topics including immigration, education, affirmative action and transgender rights. On September8, 2022, Miller and Brian Jack were subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, with special focus on the January 6 United States Capitol attack. In 2023, Miller was key to pushing Republican lawmakers to insert tougher border policies into a spending bill. On October27, 2024, Miller gave a speech at the Donald Trump campaign rally in Madison Square Garden, where he said Trump would "stand up and say the cartels are gone, the criminal migrants are gone, the gangs are gone, America is for Americans and Americans only".
