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Katie Rose Miller (
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Waldman; born October 1991) is an American political advisor who served as an advisor and spokeswoman to the
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from January to May 2025 when she departed DOGE to work for
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privately as he left the department. She served as the communications director for
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from 2020 to 2021 and had served as his press secretary from 2019 to 2020. She served as a deputy press secretary at the
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from 2017 to 2019.


Early life and education

Waldman was born in
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. She is the daughter of attorney Glenn Waldman and Sheryl Waldman (née Bekoff). She attended
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in
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, graduating in 2010. Waldman earned her BA from the
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, where she was active in the student government's Unite Party. Waldman was found stealing newspapers when the endorsement of a rival party's candidate was front-page news. Waldman attended
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, where she earned a
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.


Career

Waldman worked as a press assistant for the
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in 2014, as press secretary for Senator
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beginning in January 2015, and as a spokeswoman for Senator
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before joining the staff as deputy press secretary for the
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during the tenure of Secretary
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from November 2017 to February 2019. In that role, Waldman repeatedly denied that DHS was separating children from their parents under the
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. In 2019, she was communications director for McSally. Waldman became the
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to Vice President Pence on October 1, 2019. She married presidential advisor Stephen Miller in 2020. In 2024, she began to serve in the
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that was headed by
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. On May 29, 2025, CBS News revealed that Miller would leave the Trump White House, to work on a full-time basis for Musk. She did depart when Musk left and severed his communications with her husband after a dispute began between Musk and the administration wherein her husband was a close communication link.


Personal life

Waldman married Stephen Miller on February 16, 2020, at Trump Hotel in Washington D.C., with
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in attendance. She is a Conservative Jew.
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Aryeh Lightstone officiated at the ceremony. On May 8, 2020, Trump announced that Katie Miller had tested positive for
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, but that she had not come into contact with Trump while she was contagious. When returning to work after recovering from COVID-19, Miller announced she was pregnant. In October, along with her husband, Miller again tested positive for COVID-19. The Millers have a daughter, born in 2021, followed by two sons, born the following two years.


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