Inside Stephen Miller’s frenetic first week as White House chief of staff

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Trump’s longtime aide is moving to reshape the administration’s policymaking process. | World News

WASHINGTON—The White House chief of staff is often described as the president’s gatekeeper, a powerful figure who keeps watch over the people who have access to the Oval Office and the ideas that get presented to the commander in chief.

President Trump’s new chief of staff has told associates that he doesn’t plan to limit access to the president or filter the ideas that get pitched to him, according to people familiar with the matter. The Oval Office, which aides over the years have privately compared to Grand Central Terminal, will continue to be a bustling hub of activity under Miller’s watch, with advisers cycling in and out.

One week into his tenure as chief of staff, Miller is charting a different path from his predecessors in the job, some of whom sought to put strictures on a president who has long chafed at efforts to manage him.

Miller, people close to him say, plans to help steer the White House back to the MAGA movement’s ideological roots, reviving the hard-line, unapologetically populist agenda that defined Trump’s first rise to power and putting it at the center of the administration’s remaining years.

While that approach is likely to appeal to the president’s most ardent supporters, it has been met with skepticism—and outrage—from Democrats and some Republicans, who worry that Miller’s elevation means that Trump hasn’t learned from the GOP’s midterms losses. Hakeem Jeffries, who is set to become the speaker of the House next year, has said he would refuse to work with Miller, adding that the new chief of staff “should be eradicated like a malignant tumor.” Retiring Republican Sen. Thom Tillis called Miller “the worst of all possible choices.”

White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said Miller had been “one of the most effective implementers of federal policy and bureaucratic reform in Washington, D.C.,” adding, “In his role as chief of staff, he will continue working to implement President Trump’s populist agenda on behalf of the nation’s working people.”

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