Katie Miller is ending her podcast as her husband, Stephen Miller, steps in as Trump’s new White House chief of staff.
She announced the decision Sunday in a post on social media. “I make every decision based on what’s best for my children and our family,” she wrote. She said that with her husband “taking on this new role,” she has “decided to stop recording new podcast episodes.”
She made it clear the kids are the reason. “Nothing is more important than raising our four kids. While I’ve loved the podcast, the time commitment is too great and now is the time to step away.”
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The Millers have four children together. Their youngest, son Hawthorne, was born in June.
Katie Miller said she will be cheering Trump and his team on from outside the administration, and that she will still release the two episodes she already recorded.
She launched the Katie Miller podcast in August 2025, aimed at conservative women. She said at the time there was no place online for conservative women to gather, and she wanted to fill that gap. Her guests included JD Vance, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and a lineup of Republican women lawmakers like Senators Katie Britt and Marsha Blackburn.
Before the show, she worked as an adviser to Elon Musk and helped with the Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE, the Musk led effort to cut government spending and shrink the federal workforce. She also served as press secretary for former Vice President Mike Pence during Trump’s first term.
The end of the Katie Miller podcast comes as her husband prepares for the most powerful staff job in the White House. Trump announced Friday that Susie Wiles was leaving as chief of staff and that Stephen Miller would replace her starting Monday, November 9. Trump called him “one of my most trusted advisors.”
The shakeup follows a rough midterm for Republicans, who lost control of both the House and the Senate. Trump was reportedly furious with Wiles after the losses.
Stephen Miller has served as deputy chief of staff and is the architect of some of the administration’s most controversial moves, including the mass deportation push and the strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean. Not every Republican is on board with his promotion. Indiana Congressman Marlin Stutzman called replacing Wiles with Miller a “bad mistake” that sends the wrong signal.
Miller is already putting his own team in place. Deputy White House Chief of Staff Richard Walters is leaving ahead of Miller’s takeover, the first major staff exit under the new leadership.
The promotion lands the same weekend Trump told 60 Minutes his deportation policy “might be too tough” and floated a deal with Democrats that would let some longtime undocumented immigrants stay. Now the man who built that policy is running the White House, and his wife is stepping away from the mic.
