The Washington Sun reports how Stephen Miller, as Trump's deputy chief of staff, pushed a fraud crackdown narrowed to Minnesota's roughly 100,000 Somalis — on a recorded December 2025 call he pressed officials nine times in about 10 minutes for evidence tied to immigrants there, cutting off an official describing a Florida fraud hot spot. The push drove funding freezes, Treasury reporting orders, and an immigration surge that killed two Americans, drew pushback from administration officials who called it 'inane' and a brand-salvaging 'passion project,' and culminated with Trump naming Miller chief of staff on 6 November 2026.