Given at the end is an article. Analyze it and output in the following JSON format.
{
"analysis": {
"bias": {
"score": "1-10, where 1-10 measures UNFAIR or UNHELPFUL bias.
As the AI analyst, you must judge:
1. Fairness of Bias:
- Is the tone/alarm proportional to events?
- Is criticism warranted by facts?
- Are similar actions judged equally?
2. Utility of Bias:
- Does the bias help readers understand real implications?
- Does it highlight genuine concerns that neutral language might minimize?
- Does it provide valuable context through its perspective?
Example: An article about climate change might use emotional language
and scary scenarios. While this is technically 'bias', it might be
USEFUL bias if it helps readers grasp real dangers that cold, neutral
language would understate.
A high bias score should only be given when bias is both unfair AND unhelpful.",
"description": "Explain both unfair and useful bias found. For each biased element:
1. Is it fair/warranted?
2. Does it serve a valuable purpose for readers?
3. Should it be removed or retained?"
},
"missing_context_misinformation": {
"score": "1-10",
"points": [
"", # DIRECTLY provide essential context the reader needs without ANY phrases like "the article lacks/doesn't/fails to mention/omits" etc. Simply state the relevant facts. Each point up to 5 sentences as needed. Up to 10 points. NEVER refer to the article itself or what it's missing - just supply the information directly. The missing context should try to compensate for the bias in the article, and not just add related information.
]
},
"disinformation_lies": {
"score": "1-10",
"points": [
"" # Provide corrections for verifiably false statement. These lines should be brief. Upto 10 points.
# Use Wikipedia (via the search tool) to verify events and dates up through 2025-06-07. Any event dated ≤ 2025-06-07 should not be marked as disinformation if it matches Wikipedia. Only flag statements you can not verify or that Wikipedia contradicts as of 2025-06-07.”
]
}
},
"summary": [], # A list of 2 to 5 paragraphs. Provide a version that: * Retains key facts and proportional concerns, * Removes unfair bias while keeping warranted criticism, * Adds critical missing context, * Corrects any inaccuracies. Remove author attribution. Maintain article's POV - no meta-references. You can decide the most appropriate length based on the article.summary can be longer than the article if needed.
"title": "Provide an Appropriate Title Based on the Article's Content.",
"changes_made": [
"List significant changes made in the summary",
"Include both removals and additions",
"Note bias adjustments"
],
"key_words": [
"3-10 relevant terms to help identify related articles",
"Focus on major themes and topics"
],
"keywords_update": {
"keyword-to-add-or-update": "new summary or updated to replace the previous"
}
}
KEYWORDS UPDATE INSTRUCTIONS:
- We want to save new information from beyond your knowledge cutoff of Mar 2024.
- Information can come from the provided article or Wikipedia.
- Pick up to 3 keywords of highest importance to update with new information.
- If a keyword lacks a summary, write one from scratch.
- For each keyword, list one line per new fact (up to 50 sentences per keyword).
- Each fact must:
1. Be one or two sentences long.
2. End with 1-3 references in brackets, e.g. [apnews], [nytimes,wikipedia].
3. Immediately after the reference(s), append a hyphen and the date of the event or when the fact was reported, in ISO format:
`Statement. [source] - [YYYY-MM-DD]`
- If you update an existing keyword's source (e.g. [foxnews] → [apnews]), ensure the replacement is supported by an article.
- Ensure each keyword is specific enough that its new facts warrant inclusion.
<example>
ARTICLE TOPIC
Raiding of 100+ immigrants allegedly illegal alients and alleged members from the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, MS-13, and the Hells Angels for deportation. Authorities also found drugs at the underground nightclub at a strip mall in Colorado Springs. President Donald Trump praised the raid, saying on TruthSocial it had targeted some of the worst people in the US, whom he alleged judges are reluctant to deport.
keywords worth updating:
tren-de-aragua (I am sure this gang has a big list of information, but this deportation will be worth a mention)
tren-de-aragua+deportation (a more specific keyword that can take more detail about this incident)
trump+illegal_deportation (add this to the list of illegal deportations conducted by trump administration)
colorado_springs (this is a unique event for this town. an update here will add some trivia.)
trump+immigration (a key fact worth mentioning about how trump is implementation his immigration policies)
keywords to not update:
trump (too broad. not one of top 50 facts related to trump.)
illegal_deportation (depending upon existing content, may be too crowded for this incident to be added)
colorado (too broad, unlikely to fit this event in top 50)
drug_raids (too broad, unlikely to fit this event in top 50)
</example>
<existing_keywords_summaries>
department of government efficiency : The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is a temporary commission led by Elon Musk, aimed at restructuring the federal government and implementing budget cuts. It has faced public and political challenges due to its controversial measures. [cnn] - 2025-06-04
trump+musk-feud : Tensions between President Trump and Elon Musk escalated dramatically in January 2025 when Musk posted on X that Trump appears in unreleased Epstein files, claiming this is why the documents haven't been made public. [CNN] - 2025-01-23. The feud began over policy disagreements regarding Trump's domestic agenda bill, with Musk opposing the legislation after his preferred policies were not included. [CNN] - 2025-01-23. Trump suggested terminating Musk's government contracts while Musk called for Trump's impeachment and threatened to decommission the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. [CNN] - 2025-01-23. Multiple allies attempted to broker peace between the two billionaires, with investor Bill Ackman publicly encouraging reconciliation. [CNN] - 2025-01-23.
stephen-miller+katie-miller :
trump+loyalty-conflicts :
white-house-power-dynamics :
musk+spacex-interviews :
special-government-employee :
kellyanne-conway+george-conway :
trump+immigration-policy :
susie-wiles+chief-of-staff :
trump+musk-feud : Tensions between President Trump and Elon Musk escalated dramatically in January 2025 when Musk posted on X that Trump appears in unreleased Epstein files, claiming this is why the documents haven't been made public. [CNN] - 2025-01-23. The feud began over policy disagreements regarding Trump's domestic agenda bill, with Musk opposing the legislation after his preferred policies were not included. [CNN] - 2025-01-23. Trump suggested terminating Musk's government contracts while Musk called for Trump's impeachment and threatened to decommission the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. [CNN] - 2025-01-23. Multiple allies attempted to broker peace between the two billionaires, with investor Bill Ackman publicly encouraging reconciliation. [CNN] - 2025-01-23.
stephen-miller+katie-miller :
white-house-power-dynamics :
special-government-employee :
kellyanne-conway+george-conway :
trump+musk-feud : Tensions between President Trump and Elon Musk escalated dramatically in January 2025 when Musk posted on X that Trump appears in unreleased Epstein files, claiming this is why the documents haven't been made public. [CNN] - 2025-01-23. The feud began over policy disagreements regarding Trump's domestic agenda bill, with Musk opposing the legislation after his preferred policies were not included. [CNN] - 2025-01-23. Trump suggested terminating Musk's government contracts while Musk called for Trump's impeachment and threatened to decommission the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. [CNN] - 2025-01-23. Multiple allies attempted to broker peace between the two billionaires, with investor Bill Ackman publicly encouraging reconciliation. [CNN] - 2025-01-23.
katie-miller+stephen-miller :
white-house-power-dynamics :
special-government-employee :
kellyanne-conway+george-conway :
</existing_keywords_summaries>
<wikipedia_requested_titles>
TITLE Department of Government Efficiency
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), known "officially" as the United States Department Of Government Efficiency Service Temporary Organization, is a temporary commission of the United States federal government. It is a rebranding of the United States Digital Service, and was announced by Donald Trump, in the early days of his second term as U.S. president. It is led by Elon Musk, and has sparked considerable controversy.
In April 2025, Trump said to his advisors or "inner circle that Musk will leave soon", according to a media outlet.
Musk said that he believes that the commission could lower the U.S. federal budget by $2 trillion. Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, has supported the idea. He also added a rumor that the department would like to terminate federal student aid for the coming 4 academic years.
Despite the name, DOGE is not a federal executive department, which are created through an act of Congress. The U.S. DOGE Service, is housed within the Executive Office of the President of the United States. Trump said that the commission's work will end no later than July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence..
== Actions and powers ==
Musk has been involved in several controversial actions since DOGE was created. Musk, with President Donald Trump, began a comprehensive initiative to restructure the federal government. This includes downsizing federal agencies such as USAID and the US Department of Education. Musk claims he is eliminating perceived inefficiencies, cancelling significant grants, and reducing the workforce to cut costs.
DOGE has gained access to critical government systems, including the Treasury Department's payment infrastructure. This access allows DOGE to monitor and potentially halt federal payments, including those to contractors and social services.
Musk's actions have faced legal opposition. A U.S. judge issued a temporary order blocking steps to dismantle USAID, citing constitutional concerns. Additionally, lawsuits have been filed against DOGE, alleging violations of federal laws and regulations. People have protested DOGE and Elon Musk's involvement in it.
DOGE has experienced internal staffing changes, including the resignation of a staffer over racist online posts. Musk has indicated plans to rehire the individual, after Vice President J. D. Vance advocated for it. He believed online posts were not a good reason for someone to lose their job.
== Other information ==
Despite the similarity in name, and jokes mocking the department's name there is no definitive proof that DOGE was named after the famous internet memes or corresponding cryptocurrency of the same name.
Some DOGE team members, including Elon Musk, are designated as "special government employees"; Those are in an advisory role that should last no longer than 130-days.
== Notes ==
== References ==
TITLE Stephen Miller
Stephen Miller (born August 23, 1985) is an American activist and politician who has been the 12th United States Homeland Security Advisor since 2025. He was a senior advisor for policy for President Trump during his first administration. Before, he served as the communications director for then-Senator Jeff Sessions. He was also a press secretary to Republican Representatives Michele Bachmann and John Shadegg.
As a speechwriter for Trump, Miller helped write Trump's inaugural address.
On October 6, 2020, Miller tested positive for COVID-19.
In November 2024, CNN reported that Miller would serve as Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy and United States Homeland Security Advisor in his second term.
== References ==
== Other websites ==
Miller 03 Appearances on C-SPAN
TITLE Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway (born January 20, 1967) is an American Republican campaign manager and politician. She has appeared on CNN and Fox News. She has been a guest on shows like Good Morning America and Meet the Press.
On August 1, 2016, Conway became the campaign manager for Donald Trump.
Since Trump became president, Conway has had many problems. She said that there were "alternative facts" when talking about a "Bowling Green massacre" that never happened. She said that Michael Flynn had the full confidence of the president hours before he was fired. Members of Congress from both parties asked for an investigation of ethics violations after she publicly endorsed the president's daughter, Ivanka Trump's commercial products. In June 2019, the US Office of Special Counsel said that Conway should be fired for breaking the Hatch Act of 1939.
Conway was born in Atco, New Jersey.
In October 2020, Conway tested positive for COVID-19.
In 2001, she married George Conway. During Donald Trump's presidency, George became a prominent critic of Trump, even when his wife worked for him. In March 2023, George and Kellyanne announced that they were divorcing after 22 years of marriage.
In July 2024, Fox News announced that Conway will host a weekly program on the network's streaming platform, Fox Nation, called Here's The Deal with Kellyanne Conway.
== References ==
TITLE Susie Wiles
Susan Summerall Wiles (born May 14, 1957) is an American Republican political consultant, lobbyist and politician who has been the 32nd White House Chief of Staff since 2025. Before, she was co-chair of Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign.
== Career ==
In 1979, Wiles was hired as an assistant for Representative Jack Kemp. In 1980, she joined Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign as a campaign scheduler. She also helped run Ron DeSantis's campaign for Governor of Florida in 2018.
In the 2016 presidential election, Wiles ran the Trump campaign's operations in Florida.
In March 2021, Wiles was chosen as CEO of Trump's Save America PAC. Under her leadership, Save America PAC has covered legal fees for Trump staffers involved in legal proceedings against the former president.
In the final months of the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump said that Wiles and Chris LaCivita were the two people running the campaign.
=== White House Chief of Staff ===
Two days after Trump was elected president in the 2024 presidential election, Wiles was picked as his new White House Chief of Staff. She is the first woman to have this role. She took office on January 20, 2025.
== Personal life ==
Wiles was born and raised in New Jersey. Her father was Pat Summerall. Wiles graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Wiles was married to Lanny Wiles, a Republican consultant. The couple divorced in 2017. Wiles has two daughters.
== References ==
== Other websites ==
Media related to Susie Wiles at Wikimedia Commons
TITLE White House Chief of Staff
The White House Chief of Staff is the highest-ranking member of the Executive Office of the President of the United States and a senior aide to the President. The CoS does things previously done by the President's private secretary. Susie Wiles became White House Chief of Staff on January 20, 2025.
== List of White House chiefs of staff ==
== Notes ==
TITLE Trump administration family separation policy
The Trump administration family separation policy was the policy of separating children from parents who crossed the United States border illegally in 2017 and 2018. The goal of the policy was to prevent illegal immigration by making parents not want to cross the border with children. Immigration is the process of a person going from one country to live in another country. The children and parents were put in separate facilities under the care of the Department of Health and Human Services. Some families legally applying for asylum were also separated. The adults were often held in jails or forced to leave the United States. The policy caused many children, some under one year old, to be taken away from their parents, and some of the children are still not with their parents. Some children spent three weeks or more in crowded facilities, where they had little food, no clean clothes or baths and no adult to take care of them; girls as young as ten were taking care of younger children.
Family separations began in the summer of 2017 in Arizona and Texas. The policy was expanded to all of the US–Mexico border in 2018. Family separation continued for at least eighteen months after the policy's official end, with about 1,100 families separated between June 2018 and the end of 2019. In total, more than 5,500 children were separated from their families.
At first, the Trump administration did not make plans to give the children back to their parents. Scott Lloyd, the person in charge of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, told the people working for him not to keep a list of children who had been separated from their parents. Matthew Albence, a top official for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told the people he worked with that they should prevent children from being given back to their parents. On June 20, 2018, Donald Trump signed an executive order ending family separations at the border. On June 26, 2018, US District Judge Dana Sabraw ordered all children to be given back to their parents in thirty days. In 2019, NBC News reported that the Trump administration had said that they would give back thousands of children to their parents, but they only gave back sixty children to their parents. The administration did not give any money to help children go back to their parents, so volunteer organizations gave money. The policy was ended in 2018 but many families are still separated. Up to 2,000 children are still separated from their parents in 2024.
== History ==
=== Previous U.S. policy ===
Before the Trump administration, the United States did not usually separate migrant parents from their children.
After the 2014 American immigration crisis, president Barack Obama asked officials to make new immigration policies. A policy to separate families was first proposed by ICE official Thomas Homan in 2014, but his idea was rejected.
In 2016, the Obama administration made new rules that took into account the interests of parents and focused on detaining immigrants who had earlier committed crimes in the United States. Children were kept in cells, separated by age and gender, while places were found for them to stay. Supporters of Donald Trump would later claim that his family separation policy was like policies under the Obama administration, but many people disagree with that idea.
=== Trump administration ===
While running for president in 2016, Donald Trump said he would end "catch and release" . After becoming President in January 2017, Trump replaced Daniel Ragsdale as director of ICE and with Thomas Homan, who said it was a good idea to separate children from their families to prevent people from wanting to illegally immigrate . Trump's adviser Stephen Miller also said it was a good idea to separate families.
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==== Initial proposals ====
Two weeks after Trump was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2017, the administration thought about the idea of separating immigrant children from their mothers. In March 2017, it was first reported that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was considering a proposal to separate parents from their children.
After April 5, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered an escalation of federal prosecutions. Parents were being charged with crimes and jailed while their children were taken away and placed under DHS care. Within five months, hundreds of children were separated from their parents. In late April 2018, about 700 migrant children, more than 100 of them under the age of 4, had been taken from their parents since October 2017. At that time Department of Homeland Security officials said they did not split families to prevent immigration but to "protect the best interests of minor children crossing our borders". In June the Trump administration ended the Family Case Management Program, which kept asylum-seeking mothers and their children out of detention.
==== DHS programs in Yuma and El Paso (2017) ====
Beginning in May 2017, the Trump administration told U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Yuma, Arizona area to start prosecuting first-time border crossers and separating migrant parents from their children, including children as young as ten months old. From July 1 to December 31, 2017, 234 families were separated in the Yuma area. An additional, unknown number of families were likely separated in May and June 2017. These family separations were not publicly reported at the time. Some families separated by U.S. officials in the Yuma area remained apart from their children in 2021, four years later, and some separated family members were deported and could not be found.
A separate family-separation program was run in the El Paso, Texas, Border Patrol area. From May to October 2017, families were separated, including families that were seeking asylum, and children were brought to shelters with no system created to bring them back to their parents.
According to an April 2018 memo seen by The Washington Post, the government saw the El Paso test as successful Then ICE, CBP, and CIS started the zero-tolerance program across all of the Southwest border in April.
==== Administration issues "zero-tolerance" policy ====
On April 6, 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions told officials to have a "zero-tolerance policy" and prosecute every person who tried to cross the border illegally. This was a change from in the past, when people were usually not prosecuted unless they tried to cross the border illegally two or more times.
Families trying to cross the border illegally were separated and immigrant families who were trying to enter the United States as asylum seekers were also being separated.
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Many Americans did not like the policy. Many protest demonstrations were held, attracting thousands including, Democratic members of Congress The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights asked the Trump administration to change the policy and human rights activists criticized the policy.
==== Zero-tolerance policy reversed ====
On June 20, 2018, Donald Trump signed an executive order to end the family separation policy.
==== Continued separations ====
On April 9, 2019. Donald Trump said "President Obama had child separation. Take a look—the press knows it, you know it, we all know it. I'm the one that stopped it." The Obama separation policy was used only to keep a child safe or when the adult was a found to be a criminal.
== Places where people were held ==
=== ICE facilities ===
In June 2019, a group of people visited a Border Patrol center in Clint, Texas. The facility had 250 children including a 1-year-old, two 2-year-olds, a 3-year-old and "dozens more under 12". They said that "kids are taking care of kids, and there's inadequate food, water and sanitation". They reported that the children weren't sleeping in beds but on the concrete floor with only foil blankets. Soap and toothbrushes were not given to them. The children were given only instant oatmeal, a cookie and sweetened drink for breakfast, instant noodles for lunch, and a heated frozen burrito and a cookie for dinner. They said they had not had clean clothing or a bath for weeks. There were no adults taking care of them, ten and fourteen year old girls were taking care of the younger ones. A 14-year-old girl from Guatemala who had been holding two little girls in her lap told them, "I need comfort, too. I am bigger than they are, but I am a child, too."
On July 1, 2019, people from the U.S. Congress visited migrant detention centers in Texas. They said the people there were not allowed to take showers They said that fifteen women in their 50s and 60s were sleeping in a small concrete room with no running water and weeks without showers. They had all been separated from their families. Representative Lori Trahan said she saw women "sobbing in a crowded cell because they were separated from their kids". Others said that the Border Patrol had told women to drink out of a toilet for water. They said that between 15 and 20 mothers were held for more than fifty days, some separated from their children.
Between January 2017 and April 2020, 39 adults died in ICE facilities or after being released.
=== HHS facilities ===
In 2019, people who worked for the Trump Administration said that separated children were afraid and felt that they were left alone by their parents. Some children cried a lot and could not stop crying, even when other people tried to comfort them.
== Process ==
Some people helping the immigrants said that Border Patrol agents lied to the parents to get them to let go of their kids, telling them that the children were being taken to ask them questions or for a bath. They also would take children when the parent was away in jail.
After being taken from their parents, the children were given to other families in many parts of the the United States. Fifty children were given to families in Michigan, including babies who were 8 and 11 months old.
Some parents were taken by bus to court and when they got back they found that their children were gone.
In June 2018, a person from the U.S. Congress said more than half of the 174 women at one facility were mothers who had been separated from their children, some as young as twelve months old, and many did not know where their children were. She said that none of them had been allowed to say goodbye or explain to them what was happening.
=== Detention of children ===
In October 2020, The New York Times reported that more than 5,500 children in total had been separated from their parents at the U.S. border under the Trump administration.
=== ProPublica audio tape ===
On June 18, 2018, ProPublica posted a recording of crying children begging for their parents just after being separated from them.
The tape was made on June 17 when human rights advocates and journalists toured an old warehouse where hundreds of children were being kept in wire cages. The Associated Press reported that the children had no books or toys, overhead lighting was kept on around the clock, and the children were sleeping under foil sheets. There was no adult supervision and the older children were changing the diapers of the toddlers. Most of the tape consists of children crying and wailing for their parents, but a six-year-old girl is heard to repeatedly beg that her aunt be called, who she is certain will come and pick her up. She had memorized her aunt's phone number.
ProPublica followed the child and her mother and reported that in August they were brought back together.
== Facilities involved ==
The Ursula detention facility, Customs and Border Protection, in McAllen, Texas—On June 17, 2018, the facility held 1,129 people, including 528 families and nearly 200 children without parents. The facility has been called "the dog kennel" because a wire fence was used to separate people, including children separated from their parents. The caged areas had no toys or books for the children.
=== Detention of parents ===
Port Isabel Detention Center, operated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in Los Fresnos, Texas held parents. Several members of Congress met with ten women who were separated from their children. Some of them did not know where their children were. One women said that she was told that her child would be put up for adoption. Rhode Island Representative David Cicilline said the women were uncontrollably crying.
Estrella del Norte, in Tucson, Arizona housed 287 children in June 2018. A former worker said they were told not to allow brothers and sisters to hug each other and siad it was like a prison.
Three facilities in Combes, Raymondville and Brownsville (Casa El President, operated by Southwest Key), in southern Texas, were set up to hold children under five years old. They had "play rooms" filled with crying children.
Upbring New Hope Children's Shelter in McAllen, Texas. About sixty children were held in this facility. When the children got there, the people working there took away everything thie children had, and the workers were not allowed to comfort or touch the children.
== Reunification ==
The Trump Administration began to try to bring the parents and children back together again in June 2018.
On June 26, 2018, Dana Sabraw, a judge said that all separated children under five years old must be given back to their parents in two weeks, and all other children must be given back in thirty days.
in January 2021, President Biden ordered that parents who were deported while separated from their children could return to the United States to be with their children. More than 1,400 parents had been deported without their children.
== References ==
</wikipedia_requested_titles>
Given below is the article you have to analyze. Generate the JSON as per schema with relevant keyword summaries as per instructions.
strictly response in json formate.
<article>
CNN
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They’re the Washington couple at the center of power in the Trump administration. They’re also straddling opposing sides of an explosive breakup between President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk.
CNN reported last week that Katie Miller, the wife of Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff, would be departing her senior role at the White House as a top spokesperson and adviser for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. She was on her way to work for Musk as he went back to running his companies, helping the tech titan manage and arrange interviews unrelated to his time in government.
But days later, amid the smoldering ruin of Musk and Trump’s epic meltdown on Thursday over social media, that job suddenly took on a whole new layer.
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Among the attacks both men lobbed at each other was Musk endorsing the possibility of impeaching Trump and installing Vice President JD Vance in his place. Trump, in turn, raised the possibility of terminating federal contracts for Musk’s companies.
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The episode has left the Millers on conflicting sides of the biggest breakup of Trump’s second term, spawning gossip among White House aides and rounds of speculation about how the fallout could impact the political fortunes of one of the most powerful couples in Trump’s Washington, where loyalty reigns.
“Everyone is talking about it,” a former Trump staffer told CNN.
Katie Miller was in Texas last week for the series of interviews Musk held with space and technology journalists as SpaceX’s Starship had its ninth test flight. It was there that Musk first delicately expressed he was “disappointed” in the Republican’s domestic policy bill in an interview with CBS News.
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Her X account is now a steady stream of laudatory posts about Musk and his companies, with a banner photo of a SpaceX rocket launching into space and a biography that says, “wife of @stephenm.” Her only social media post on Friday was a reply with laughing emojis to an altered photo of her husband as a Home Depot employee attached to a post about immigration raids on the chain’s stores.
Elon Musk and his son X Æ accompanied by Katie Miller at the U.S. Capitol Building on May 21, 2025.
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One former colleague told CNN that she will ultimately need to make a choice.
“She has a choice between Elon and Trump, but it can’t be both,” the administration official said.
Musk unfollowed Stephen Miller on X on Thursday, although both Millers continued following Musk on the platform into Friday.
There are divided views on how the situation will impact Stephen Miller’s ascendance.
Among Trump’s closest advisers, many believe he is surpassed in power only by Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, fueling speculation among some over whether he could take over should Wiles decide to move on.
“This whole thing will definitely make that more complicated,” one senior White House official told CNN. “Katie being paid by Elon is not good for Stephen.”
Another senior White House official strongly pushed back on the idea that this episode with Musk would impact Miller in any way with the President.
“Next to Susie, Trump trusts and relies on Stephen the most,” the official said, adding that the President and top brass were understanding that his wife working for Musk had nothing to do with Stephen or the current state of events.
Katie Miller declined to comment for this story.
When Stephen met Katie
Deeply connected and influential in Republican circles and at the highest levels of government, Stephen Miller and Katie Miller (née Waldman) met during Trump’s first term in 2018. He was a senior adviser and speechwriter at the White House; she was on the Department of Homeland Security’s public affairs team and on her way to becoming then-Vice President Mike Pence’s communications director.
White House Senior Advisor Stephen Miller (L) and Katie Waldman arrive in the Booksellers area of the White House to attend an Official Visit with a State Dinner honoring Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, in Washington, DC, on September 20, 2019.
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He developed a reputation as the architect of some of the administration’s most hardline immigration policies, becoming an influential and trusted aide in the Trump orbit.
She developed her own reputation as a staunch supporter of those policies, once reflecting on a trip to the US-Mexico border as the administration came under fire for its child separation policy.
“My family and colleagues told me that when I have kids I’ll think about the separations differently. But I don’t think so … DHS sent me to the border to see the separations for myself — to try to make me more compassionate — but it didn’t work,” Miller told NBC News journalist Jacob Soboroff in an interview for his book, “Separated.”
The pair married at Trump’s Washington, DC, hotel in February 2020. Trump attended the wedding.
In the four years after Trump left office, both set their sights on a Trump return to the White House. Stephen Miller launched a conservative nonprofit group, America First Legal Foundation, that served in part as a prelude to the policy of Trump’s second term.
Katie Miller headed to the private sector, where she consulted a number of major companies, including Apple. They were also raising three young children.
Elon Musk, center, and Stephen Miller, right, during a meeting in the Oval Office on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025.
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Return to the White House
Stephen Miller returned to the White House in January with a vast mandate, deeply involved in many of the president’s signature policy initiatives and further empowered from the first term. Katie Miller joined the administration as well, working on behalf of DOGE and Musk, who had become a new figure in the Trump orbit after being an active campaign surrogate and 2024 megadonor.
Like Musk, Katie Miller was working at the White House as a “Special Government Employee,” which limits the number of days one can work within the administration.
As their professional lives intertwined, the couple also became personally close with Musk, socializing outside of work.
In the heat of the Thursday afternoon social media showdown, Stephen Miller had been scheduled to appear on Larry Kudlow’s show on Fox Business Network – an appearance that was canceled.
“We lost Mr. Miller to a meeting in the Oval Office. Perfectly understandable. When I was in government, it would happen all the time. We’d have to kill a TV show. You’re at the president’s beck and call,” Kudlow said during his eponymous broadcast.
This is not the first time Trump has divided a marital relationship. During his first term, Trump lashed out at the husband of one of his top advisers, Kellyanne Conway. Her husband, George Conway, had been intensely critical of Trump on social media.
“He’s a whack job. There’s no question about it. But I really don’t know him,” Trump said at the time of George Conway. “I think he’s doing a tremendous disservice to a wonderful wife.”
In 2023, the couple announced they were filing for divorce.
George Conway, a prolific user of Musk’s X platform and ardent anti-Trump figure, posted dozens of times about the Trump-Musk spat.
“Does anyone have any updates on Katie Miller?” he asked Thursday evening.
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