President Donald Trump’s White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller recently sent a strong message to bureaucrats who have been locked out of their computers as the administration seeks to trim federal government employees. Miller received various other pressing questions from reporters, and he gave firm answers that represented President Trump’s agenda.
Over the past several days, reports have circulated that aides to Elon Musk within the U.S. government human resources agency have removed civil servants’ access from data systems. Since taking office, President Trump has tasked Musk with downsizing the civil service, which employs over 2 million people, particularly to remove disloyal bureaucrats.
After a reporter asked Miller to address the reports of lost access, he initially said, “Well, I would say, just as a general matter, that if somebody is trying to send money to, for example, a foreign country that is not authorized, that would be obviously a grave violation, not only of the agency rules, not only of an executive order, but potentially even the law.”
Furthermore, the deputy chief of staff emphasized that bureaucrats who have been placed on leave should not continue to have access to send funds to other countries. “And if an individual has been relieved of duty, hypothetically, or has been placed on leave and is still trying to send taxpayer dollars overseas. That obviously would be an extremely serious infraction, but a standard protocol, of course, if someone has been placed on leave to lose access to your devices, we’re talking about people who have the ability, with the press of a button, to send billions of dollars to foreign countries,” he said.
At another point during the press conference, Miller was asked about President Trump’s stance toward legal immigration to the United States given his zero-tolerance policy toward illegal immigration. The chief of staff explained that the president toward those who seek citizenship should contribute to the country and assimilate to American society.
He told the reporter, “The president has been clear with respect to legal immigration, that his view is he wants pro-American immigration, immigration that supports the economy, that assimilates to our national values, in which there’s no welfare use, there’s no drain on taxpayers, and it promotes social cohesion, patriotism and assimilation in the country.”
Miller also reminded the press that, as a sovereign nation, the U.S. has the right to discern who it allows into the country. “In other words, we as a nation, like any nation, have the right to select newcomers based on who will provide the most value to the country, and the citizens are already living here,” he said. However, he emphasized that no illegal immigration will be tolerated. “That’s the President’s policy. And of course, with the illegal immigration, the answer is none, zero, no illegal immigrants allowed to the country at all,” he added.
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During another portion of the conference, Miller fielded a question on Trump’s tariffs against Canada and Mexico. “There have obviously been long standing trade imbalances with these trading partners that have been long running in the systemic and that affect our national security by eroding our defense industrial base and eroding our manufacturing base. Also, there are even greater concerns with national security and public safety,” he said.
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