Trump Immigration Adviser Stephen Miller Urges House Republicans to Cut Funding for Sanctuary Cities

Key Donald Trump aide Stephen Miller urged House Republicans during a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill Wednesday to find new ways to cut funding for sanctuary cities and states like New York while beefing up border enforcement.

Miller, who served as a speechwriter and senior adviser in the president-elect’s first administration, met with members of the Republican Study Committee, the largest GOP caucus in the House, for an hour to lay out border security plans for the 47th president’s term, sources familiar with the talks told The Post.

That blueprint included withholding federal funds from sanctuary jurisdictions, which bar information about non-citizen arrests from being shared with federal authorities, and hiring more Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to help with planned mass deportations.

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“The Republican Study Committee stands ready to deliver on the Trump agenda from day one of the new administration,” the 177-member group’s chairman, Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas), said in a statement. “We’re laser-focused on securing the border and cracking down on illegal immigration.”

Long Island Rep. Nick LaLota, another member of the RSC, introduced a bill last year that would have pulled all federal aid funding for sanctuary jurisdictions grappling with the influx of migrants — but it never was taken up in the Democrat-controlled Senate.

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In 2023, Justice Department grants to law enforcement in all sanctuary jurisdictions amounted to more than $1.56 billion, according to the Center for Immigration Services, a conservative nonprofit research organization.

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