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Axios had a scoop this afternoon about a change in Administration messaging:

“White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair privately urged House Republicans today to stop emphasizing "mass deportations" and instead focus their messaging on removing violent criminals.” Sounds pretty anodyne, until you realize a couple of things: 1, the only person in that position we’ve heard about since Inauguration Day has been Stephen Miller. 2. Miller has been the main proponent of mass deportations, enforcing a 3000/day quota that has, in turn, generated a wave of negative news stories about, among other things, the killings of American citizens by DHS personnel. The Axios story contained no comment from Miller nor mention of him.

As the Consigliere of Cruelty, it would seem Miller would have weighed in on this message to House Republicans. The silence suggests that, at long last, the numerical nastiness of his approach, and the palpable negative reaction in the polls, has reached Chief of Staff level, if not the Resolute Desk itself. It’s time to alert Fox News that they may have a truculent new contributor on their roster.