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Eugene

(65,362 posts)
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 10:08 AM Tuesday

Stephen Miller wages war on the GOP's libertarians

Source: The Hill

Stephen Miller wages war on the GOP’s libertarians

by Emily Brooks - 06/10/25 8:00 AM ET

Stephen Miller is leading a public war against the Republican Party’s libertarians as he reframes the “one big, beautiful bill” to being the key that unlocks President Trump‘s mass deportation agenda.

Going mainly after libertarian-leaning lawmakers such as Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who have brought up concerns about the megabill’s deficit impact, the White House deputy chief of staff — and chief architect of Trump’s immigration agenda — is taking a sledgehammer to what remains of the libertarian-conservative fusionism that was prominent in the party pre-Trump.

“The libertarians in the House and Senate trying to take down this bill — they’re not stupid. They just don’t care,” Miller said in an interview with conservative activist and commentator Charlie Kirk last week.

“Immigration has never mattered to them; it will never matter to them. Deportations have never mattered to them; it will never matter to them. You will never live a day in your life where a libertarian cares as much about immigration and sovereignty as they do about the Congressional Budget Office.”

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Read more: https://thehill.com/newsletters/the-movement/5341262-the-movement-stephen-miller-gop-libertarians/

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Stephen Miller wages war on the GOP's libertarians (Original Post) Eugene Tuesday OP
Federalist society, Musk, and now libertarians newdeal2 Tuesday #1
That's one way to look at it................. Lovie777 Tuesday #2
Can't say I have anything resembling empathy EYESORE 9001 Tuesday #3
libertarians support unregulated immigration because they love cheap labor DBoon Tuesday #4

Lovie777

(18,845 posts)
2. That's one way to look at it.................
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 10:21 AM
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true or not, miller's wife went with musk so there is a grudge going on.

EYESORE 9001

(28,393 posts)
3. Can't say I have anything resembling empathy
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 10:22 AM
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We’re in a post-empathetic society. I call it YerOnYerOwn-istan.

DBoon

(23,785 posts)
4. libertarians support unregulated immigration because they love cheap labor
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 10:49 AM
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people like Miller keep immigrant labor cheap by terrorizing them

That is why both groups are in the Republican party

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