Hakeem Jeffries greeted Stephen Miller’s promotion by comparing the new Chief of Staff to a malignant tumor that needs cutting out.
Democrats insist Miller’s ideas will wreck the economy for working Americans.
And Laura Ingraham pointed to one fresh number that blows their whole story apart.
The Would-Be Speaker Reached for the Scalpel
President Donald Trump made the move official in a Truth Social post naming Miller, his Deputy Chief of Staff, as the replacement for Susie Wiles. Trump called him “one of my most trusted advisors.”
The President kept his explanation short and sweet. “Stephen has been with me from beginning. He gets it,” Trump said in a clip Ingraham aired on The Ingraham Angle.
Democrats didn’t even pretend to look for common ground. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who expects to grab the Speaker’s gavel in January, fired off a post on X that read less like a policy disagreement and more like a demand for removal by any means.
“Stephen Miller is a dangerous xenophobe and reckless extremist who has American blood on his hands,” Jeffries wrote. “His presence in government should be eradicated like a malignant tumor. Fire him today.”
Eradicated. Sit with that word for a second, coming from the man who wants to run the House of Representatives.
This is the same party that lectured the country for five straight years about “dangerous rhetoric” every time a Republican raised his voice. And according to RedState, Miller already moved his family onto a military base because of threats against them. Somebody in Jeffries’ office should have thought about that before hitting send.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) piled on with his own line, telling reporters, “Donald Trump learned nothing from his historic defeat.”
But Ingraham saw the tantrum for exactly what it was. “Now, of course, the real reason they loathe Miller is because he’s effective and he’s battle-tested, because he stands for strong borders and immigration enforcement,” she said.
The Jobs Report Democrats Hoped Nobody Would Read
Then Ingraham turned to the one subject Democrats campaigned on from Labor Day to Election Day. The economy.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that employers added 165,000 jobs in October, close to triple what economists had predicted. The unemployment rate slipped to 4.1 percent, down from 4.2 percent.
Private businesses accounted for nearly all of it, 159,000 jobs. Factories added 19,000, while economists surveyed by Econoday had forecast zero, according to Breitbart. Manufacturing has now added 101,000 jobs since December. Morningstar noted that revisions tacked another 84,000 jobs onto August and September.
Even the cable crowd couldn’t spin it. “Job growth blew away expectations. Unemployment rate unexpectedly fell,” CNN’s Matt Egan admitted. CNBC’s Steve Liesman chimed in, “Factory jobs up 19,000. That’s a good number.”
Trump, for his part, didn’t act surprised. “They were thinking about 20 or 30, and they ended up 165,000 new jobs,” he said.
Nobody should pretend the picture is perfect, though. Ingraham herself conceded that wage growth still trails inflation a bit, and Morningstar reported the September consumer price index running at a 3.7 percent annual rate. Voters are also furious about gas prices, thanks to a war the neoconservative wing spent months selling to the administration.
And then there’s the Federal Reserve. The Fed already raised rates in September, and now economists are betting on a December hike precisely because the jobs report came in hot, according to Morningstar. Only an unelected central bank could look at a booming factory floor and decide the problem needs fixing.
Stephen Miller Made This Exact Argument Back in 2017
Here’s the part Democrats really don’t want anybody to notice.
Ingraham dug up an old clip of Miller from 2017, long before anyone in Washington took him seriously. “This country will protect its borders. It will protect its people. And it will ensure we have an immigration system that promotes wage growth, that promotes employment opportunities for our people,” Miller said.
Wage growth. Jobs for Americans. Not cheap labor for the donor class, not a bigger GDP number padded out by millions of new arrivals. That’s the argument Jeffries calls xenophobia.
That same summer, Miller stood in the White House briefing room selling the RAISE Act, a bill to cut legal immigration roughly in half over a decade. The press corps treated him like a heretic. But the logic never changed: a country that imports workers by the millions imports their wage pressure, their culture, and their politics right along with them, and it never gives anybody time to assimilate.
The numbers are starting to back him up. Steven Camarota and Jason Richwine of the Center for Immigration Studies found in American Affairs that from January 2025 to February 2026, employment among native-born Americans climbed by 412,000 while the number of employed immigrants dropped by 606,000. Labor Department figures reported by CNN showed one million new jobs going to native-born workers in Trump’s first year back, while foreign-born employment fell by 100,000.
Now, one month of payrolls doesn’t settle an argument that’s raged for decades. Open-borders groups like the National Foundation for American Policy keep insisting American-born workers haven’t seen a benefit. Maybe the factory gains owe more to tariffs than to the border. Probably both. But the old doomsday warning, that cutting off the flow of cheap foreign labor would crater the job market, sure hasn’t shown up in the data.
Democrats Now Hold the Brakes on a Rolling Economy
Ingraham didn’t sugarcoat what comes next. “Democrats have zero, and I mean zero, incentive to keep the economy going strong into 2028,” she said. “They want to tank the economy. I hate to say it, but it’s true.”
That’s a rough charge, and no Democrat will ever admit to it out loud. But look at what they’ve already put on the table.
The new majority’s first big target is the man most associated with protecting American wages. Party leaders are already talking up amnesty, which would flood the labor market with millions of newly authorized workers competing for exactly the warehouse, construction, and factory jobs in the October report. It doubles as a plan to restock the voter rolls with a fresh electorate more friendly to the Left.
Behind them stands a socialist wing that wants ICE abolished, private industry under government thumbs, and taxes high enough to choke off every small business that hired somebody in October. Jim Messina, Barack Obama’s old campaign manager, is already bragging that nine Democrats are thinking about running for President. Every one of them knows a strong economy makes their pitch a whole lot harder.
But Trump didn’t flinch. Ingraham put the question to Jeffries directly: “did you really think that the midterm drubbing was going to send Trump running with his tail between his legs?”
He answered by promoting the aide who has argued since 2017 that immigration policy should serve American paychecks first.
Jeffries wants that aide eradicated. He still hasn’t said which of those 165,000 new jobs he’d like to see disappear along with him.
Sources: RealClearPolitics, “Ingraham: Did You Really Think The Midterm Drubbing Was Going To Push Trump To The Mushy Middle?”; Breitbart, “Hakeem Jeffries Calls for Stephen Miller to Be Fired from Trump Admin”; NPR, “Stephen Miller will replace Susie Wiles as Trump’s chief of staff”; RedState, “Hakeem Jeffries Flips Out Over Stephen Miller Pick”; Morningstar, “October US Jobs Report: 165,000 Rise in Payrolls, Beating Expectations” and “Hot October Jobs Report Raises Odds of December Rate Hike”; Breitbart, “The U.S. Economy Added 165,000 Jobs in October”; InvestmentNews, “October jobs report beats forecasts, lifting December Fed hike odds”; NumbersUSA summary of Camarota and Richwine, American Affairs; KVIA/CNN on Labor Department native-born employment data; National Foundation for American Policy labor force analyses.