Washington (United States) (AFP) – Donald Trump announced Friday that he was appointing "one of (his) most loyal advisors", Stephen Miller, representative of the identitarian right, to the very strategic position of White House chief of staff.

Published on: 06/11/2026 - 20:30

This is the first major reshuffle within the American executive branch after the monumental defeat recorded by the Republican Party during the mid-term elections, interpreted as a wholesale rejection of the first two years of Trump's second term.

The American president specified on his Truth Social network that Stephen Miller, 41, architect of his aggressive anti-immigration policy, would take the place on Monday of the current chief of staff, Susie Wiles, 69, who will be called upon to occupy other positions in the billionaire's orbit, outside the government.

“I want to thank her, she did an excellent job,” wrote the 80-year-old Republican.

“My role may be changing, but my commitment to the president and his mission will never change,” Susie Wiles, the first woman to hold this position, wrote on X.

Pilot of Donald Trump's last campaign, she was recently treated for breast cancer, from which she announced in September that she had been cured.

The position of chief of staff, “chief of staff” in English, is perhaps the most strategic in the American executive branch. In France, he is similar to that of secretary general of the Élysée.

Its function consists of filtering the information and the people who have access to the head of state, while oiling the cogs of government action on a daily basis.

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