Project On Government Oversight reports:

Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s powerful deputy chief of staff and homeland security advisor, is more than just the architect of the administration’s hardline immigration policies: He has a personal financial stake in them. Miller disclosed from $100,001 up to a quarter million dollars of stock in Palantir, a tech company woven into the operations of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and used by other federal agencies such as the Pentagon. That stock ownership is previously unreported; this new information comes from his financial disclosure, recently released by the White House.

Ethics experts say Miller’s deep involvement in ICE’s efforts and his financial stake in Palantir raises conflict of interest concerns.

Palantir has attracted controversy in recent months, in part due to bipartisan anxiety about the privacy impacts from its widespread access to government databases and former employees who have decried its work with ICE. Both issues have intersected with Miller and his wife’s White House roles (Katie Miller recently left the White House). But Palantir has also been a Wall Street star of late, potentially due to some of that same work. Palantir is the highest performing company in the S&P 500 this year. Its stock price is up by over 80% in 2025 so far. Palantir revealed last month in an investor presentation that its U.S. government revenue was 45% higher in the first quarter of this year compared to the same quarter last year. [Continue reading…]