Debt Desk — Debt Desk — November 7, 2026: A White House Reset Meets a Firmer Jobs Report
Good morning. It is Saturday, November seventh.
The national brief begins at the White House, where President Trump is replacing Susie Wiles with Stephen Miller as chief of staff after Tuesday’s midterm losses.
Wiles was the first woman to hold the job and had been one of the president’s longest-serving political advisers. Miller has spent years shaping the administration’s immigration agenda and defending its broadest claims of executive authority. The personnel change therefore looks less like a routine reshuffle and more like a decision to answer a congressional defeat with a more…
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