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Thom Tillis bashes Trump Cabinet members, says they’re ‘costing us more than they are benefiting us’

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Miller, B. (2026, October 22). Thom Tillis bashes Trump Cabinet members, says they’re ‘costing us more than they are benefiting us’. Washington Examiner. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/4776212/thom-tillis-bashes-trump-cabinet-costing-us-more-than-benefiting/

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Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) criticized several of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members during an appearance on Stephen A. Smith’s podcast Straight Shooter with Stephen A. Smith on Wednesday. Tillis specifically mentioned White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and War Secretary Pete Hegseth, expressing his view that they should be fired because “they’re costing us more than they are benefiting us.”

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On October 22, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) criticized President Donald Trump's Cabinet members, including White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and War Secretary Pete Hegseth, saying they are “costing us more than they are benefiting us.” Tillis called on the president to fire these individuals and suggested that doing so would lead to a different trajectory in government operations. The senator made these comments during an appearance on sports personality Stephen A. Smith’s podcast, Straight Shooter with Stephen A. Smith.

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