Stephen Miller a 'big problem' for Trump administration, says Republican senator

[Uncle Joe]

Thom Tillis, who called for the resignation or firing of DHS secretary Kristi Noem, says White House adviser ‘should go’

Republican Senator Thom Tillis said on Sunday he believes White House adviser Stephen Miller “should go” and that his role in the Trump administration has been a “big problem”.

The senior senator representing North Carolina, when asked on CNN’s State of the Union if he thinks Miller should go, during a conversation about the administration’s immigration crackdown, responded to host Jake Tapper stating “Oh, of course I do.”

“He is not worried about substance. He’s more worried about form, but I also think that he has an outsized influence over the operations of the cabinet. And I believe we’ve got qualified cabinet members there that sometimes are doing less than what they want to, because of his direction and his outsized influence. He’s a big problem in this administration. He has been from the beginning,” said Tillis.

(snip)

“It gives me pause that you had people like Stephen Miller calling the shots,” Tillis added. “It was Steven Miller who said it was the position of the United States that we should go after Greenland. And Stephen Miller, that’s been repeatedly responsible for embarrassments for the President of the United States by acting too quickly speaking, first, and thinking later.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/republican-senator-thom-tillis-stephen-miller

[Walleye]

1. Not just the administration, senator, a big problem for the whole United States

People like that get power anywhere and they love nothing more than being cruel. Miller is drunk on power

[displacedvermoter]

2. What "qualified cabinet members"

Is this idiot referring to whose skills are being thwarted by Miller? Rubio? Hegseth? Bondi?

I know Tillis is now a hero in some places, even here on DU. But he keeps on letting it out of the bag that he thinks Trump isn't the problem, it's the idiots Trump surrounded himself with, with barely a vote in opposition from Tillis and his Party, and a few useful idiots like Fetterman.

[mountain grammy]

9. Exactly

[Scrivener7]

3. Nice of you to notice, Thom. 10 years late, though

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Um, and the president isn't responsible for allowing Stephen Miller to set policy?

And, what about Lindsey Graham who posted that he tricked Trump into attacking Iran?

Is this the same rationale that it's young girls who turned him into a pedophile?

At some point, you have to blame this president for something.

[DBoon]

5. Tillis is covering himself for when it all collapses

He is hoping to deflect blame when it all hits the fan. It won't work.

[Uncle Joe]

6. He's retiring this year. n/t

[yardwork]

13. He'll go right to work as a lobbyist.

Do not trust Tillis.

[JT45242]

7. When tillis votes for the next qualified cabinet member, it will be the first

Seriously, who amongst that rabble is qualified?

Little Marco is the closest based on resume. But lacking spine, brain, and ethics , he is not qualified.

[Dave Id]

8. Like Dick Cheney was George W's brain

Stephen Miller is Trump's conscience.

[Uncle Joe]

10. Well Al Capone is still dead, and

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Hannibal Lector doesn't actually exist much to the apparent disappointment of *rump, so Miller answered the call.

[ananda]

11. Exactly what qualified cabinet members?

???

[AllyCat]

12. I would disagree there are any qualified people

In that cabinet.

[TBF]

14. "And I believe we've got qualified cabinet members"

Name one.

[MadameButterfly]

16. Republicans only speak out when they aren't running for re-election

and then they flee instead of sticking around and trying to change things. But we have to take whatever we can get because it's our only shot at Republican voices speaking up. Massie being the rare exception.

I give him some credit because most of them slither away without saying why they can't stomach it any more.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

17. We're going to miss Tillis, I fear.

He has more guts than all the other Republican senators combined.

Republican senator calls for firing of another high-level Trump official
https://www.alternet.org/tillis-kristi-noem/