One of president Donald Trump's aides, who is also the wife of top staffer Stephen Miller, is following Elon Musk out of the White House to work full time for the tech mogul.
Katie Miller had been working as a top adviser and spokesperson for the Department of Government Efficiency, but three sources familiar with the matter told CNN that she was leaving the government to work for Musk in the private sector.
She had been working as a special government employee since Trump returned to the White House, although she was also being paid earlier this year by the Republican consulting firm P2 Public Affairs to advise a range of the company’s private clients, including Apple, before stepping away to focus on DOGE.
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Miller's role as a special government employee was set to expire Friday after a statutory limit of 130 days of service, and she is reportedly helping Musk to set up media interviews unrelated to his government work now that he has officially stepped down as head of DOGE.
Musk has given interviews this week to Ars Technica, CBS News and the Washington Post, where he complained about White House betrayal and criticized the "big beautiful bill" Trump was trying to push through Congress.
Miller's exit sparked speculation about her marriage to the president's deputy White House chief of staff and sent the word "throuple" trending on social media.
"If you think you’ve made poor life decisions, there is a woman who not only married Stephen Miller, she left him for Elon Musk," said the popular Volatile Mermaid account on Bluesky.
"If you thought stephen miller hated immigrants before," posted writer Shiv Ramdas Rice Lord.
"Inside you are two weird d----," posted Bluesky user April Wolfe. "This is about Katie Miller."
"I read the words 'Stephen Miller' and 'throuple' then passed out for like 20 minutes," said USA Today columnist Rex Huppke. "Has it stopped yet or are all the worst things imaginable still happening all at once?"
"Congratulations to Katie Miller for being literally the only woman in the world for whom joining Elon Musk’s harem would be a step up," added James Palmer, deputy editor of Foreign Policy.
Miller herself posted a screenshot of a news article where Musk articulates his view that "DOGE is a way of life, like Buddhism."
