The Republican senator Thom Tillis said on Sunday that he believed the 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 thought Miller should go during a conversation about the administration’s immigration crackdown, responded to the host Jake Tapper by 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.
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Miller a ‘big problem’ for Trump administration, says Republican senator
Tillis affirmed support for the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security pick Markwayne Mullin to replace Kristi Noem, saying he believed that Mullin will be independent from Miller’s influence, even though Mullin repeated similar falsehoods about the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal agents.
“It gives me pause that you had people like Stephen Miller calling the shots,” Tillis added. “It was Stephen 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.”
Fox News uses old clip of Trump after he wore hat while saluting slain US soldiers
Fox News used old video of Donald Trump in multiple reports on Saturday and Sunday, concealing from viewers that the commander-in-chief wore a golf hat throughout a ceremony on Saturday in which he saluted six flag-draped transfer cases carrying the remains of the first US troops to die in his war on Iran.
The president had stirred outrage online by failing to remove his Trump-brand white hat during the ritual homecoming at Dover air force base in Delaware on Saturday for six army reserve soldiers killed in Kuwait.
Iran war drives oil prices above $100 a barrel
Global oil prices surged past $100 (£74, AU$142) a barrel for the first time since 2022 as fallout from the US-Israel war with Iran continued to wipe 20m barrels of oil from the market each day.
A weekend of escalating violence in the Middle East intensified concerns around a sustained supply crunch, propelling oil prices to their highest level in four years and triggering a deep stock market selloff.
Starmer speaks with Trump after president criticises lack of UK support for Iran strikes
The UK prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has spoken to Donald Trump and discussed their military cooperation through the US use of RAF bases “in support of the collective self-defence of partners” in the Middle East, Downing Street has said.
Court records reveal gutting of DHS oversight: ‘Incredibly dangerous’
The Trump administration has so radically transformed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) independent watchdog teams that thousands of cases related to conditions in immigration detention, deaths in custody and officers’ use of force are not being investigated, according to court records reviewed by the Guardian.
Lev Parnas, ex-member of Trump’s ‘cult’, runs for Congress as Florida Democrat
Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian-American businessman who served a 20-month sentence for campaign contributions to Republican politicians, including Donald Trump, that secretly came from a Russian oligarch, has announced a bid to unseat María Elvira Salazar, a Cuban-American Republican who is in her third term as representative for Florida’s 27th congressional district.
How Trump’s EPA rollbacks give US states new tools in climate suits
By rolling back a bedrock climate legal determination, the Trump administration has undercut its attacks on a groundbreaking state climate accountability law, green groups have argued in court.
What else happened today:
New York police have confirmed that an improvised explosive device was thrown outside Zohran Mamdani’s official residence on Saturday when anti-Islam demonstrators clashed with counterprotesters.
The US Department of Energy secretary, Chris Wright, said on Sunday that the spike in energy prices would last weeks, at the worst, not months, and that the US would not target Iran’s energy industry.
A federal judge ruled on Saturday that Kari Lake unlawfully led the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) for several months last year and voided mass layoffs and other actions taken during that period to dismantle the agency.
Earth’s leading alien hunters believe extraterrestrials could be out there, they’re just having a hard time getting through to us because it’s stormy in space.
Catching up? Here’s what happened Saturday 7 March.
