WASHINGTON (NewsNation Now) — Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and speechwriter, tested positive for the coronavirus Tuesday.
A senior administration official told The Associated Press that Miller had previously tested negative as White House officials have tried to contain an outbreak on the complex that has infected President Trump, the first lady and more than a dozen other aides and associates.
“Over the last 5 days I have been working remotely and self-isolating, testing negative every day through yesterday. Today, I tested positive for COVID-19 and am in quarantine,” Miller told NewsNation.
Miller is an architect of the president’s “America First” foreign policy and immigration policy.
His wife, Katie Miller, who serves as communications director to Vice President Mike Pence, previously had the virus and tested negative after the last time she saw him. Katie Miller had been in Salt Lake City with Pence, where he is preparing to debate Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris, but she left as soon as she found out about her husband’s diagnosis.
This is a developing story.