ICYMI: Stephen Miller Preps House Republicans for Trump’s Immigration Overhaul in Closed-Door Meeting; Trump immigration adviser Stephen Miller Urges House Republicans to Cut Funding for Sanctuary Cities, States Like NY to Beef-Up Border Security

Stephen Miller preps House Republicans for Trump’s immigration overhaul in closed-door meeting

President-elect Trump’s top aide on immigration and the border spoke with House Republicans during a roughly hour-long meeting Wednesday.

Lawmakers who left the room hailed Stephen Miller, who was tapped to be U.S. Homeland Security adviser in the new Trump administration, as a brilliant policy mind.

Two sources present for the discussions told Fox News Digital Miller talked about the need to scale up the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) workforce, which is noteworthy given Trump’s promise to execute mass deportations when he returns to office.

Miller also discussed ways to cut federal funds going toward sanctuary cities and states, a cash flow that Republicans had previously promised to target if they were to control the levers of power in Washington.

The strategy meeting comes as congressional Republicans are preparing for a massive conservative policy overhaul through the budget reconciliation process. By lowering the threshold for passage in the Senate from 60 votes to 51, reconciliation allows the party controlling Congress and the White House to pass broad policy changes — provided they deal with budgetary and other fiscal matters.

The sources told Fox News Digital Miller’s portion of the meeting partly focused on what border and immigration policies could go into a reconciliation package and what kind of funding Congress would need to appropriate.

The sources said Miller told Republicans the incoming Trump administration understood the president-elect’s border and immigration goals were “probably not going to get a lot” of Democratic votes and that “those more controversial things would need to be in reconciliation.” More bipartisan initiatives could be passed during the regular process, the sources added.

A House GOP lawmaker told Fox News Digital of an understanding that Congress would follow Trump’s lead. —>READ MORE HERE

Trump immigration adviser Stephen Miller urges House Republicans to cut funding for sanctuary cities, states like NY to beef-up border security:

Key Donald Trump aide Stephen Miller urged House Republicans during a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill Wednesday to find new ways to cut funding for sanctuary cities and states like New York while beefing up border enforcement.

Miller, who served as a speechwriter and senior adviser in the president-elect’s first administration, met with members of the Republican Study Committee, the largest GOP caucus in the House, for an hour to lay out border security plans for the 47th president’s term, sources familiar with the talks told The Post.

That blueprint included withholding federal funds from sanctuary jurisdictions, which bar information about non-citizen arrests from being shared with federal authorities, and hiring more Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to help with planned mass deportations.

Wednesday’s meeting between Miller and members of the House GOP was first reported by Fox News .

“The Republican Study Committee stands ready to deliver on the Trump agenda from day one of the new administration,” the 177-member group’s chairman, Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas), said in a statement. “We’re laser-focused on securing the border and cracking down on illegal immigration.”

Long Island Rep. Nick LaLota, another member of the RSC, introduced a bill last year that would have pulled all federal aid funding for sanctuary jurisdictions grappling with the influx of migrants — but it never was taken up in the Democrat-controlled Senate.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants have been thrown at New York City to provide food, shelter and other services to migrants in recent years, according to Comptroller Brad Lander’s office.

In fiscal year 2024, the city spent $3.75 billion on migrant services, the disclosures by Lander’s office show, and was expected to receive $237.3 million in total from the feds. —>READ MORE HERE

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