Stephen Miller wages war on the GOP's libertarians
(The Hill) 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.
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Miller’s personal advocacy for the bill ramped up amid outcry from deficit hawks within Congress and from outside voices like Elon Musk. And while he echoed other top Republicans in denying the Congressional Budget Office’s budget math, Miller has particularly focused on one of the legislation’s key pillars: the billions of additional dollars to fund construction of the border wall and deportation efforts such as detention facilities, more Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, and transporting deportees.
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