Tillis says Trump advisers are "not taking care of the president's legacy"

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina said Sunday that 2 of President Trump's apical advisers, White House lawman main of unit Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, "are not taking attraction of the president's legacy" on  migration and borderline security.

"You've heard maine speech astir Stephen Miller, you cognize my sentiment astir Kristi Noem," Tillis told Ed O'Keefe connected "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan." "These are radical that don't look astir corners and are not taking attraction of this president's legacy."

Tillis, who is not moving for reelection successful 2026, said helium believed that Republicans could clasp onto its bulk successful the Senate. But helium admitted that it could beryllium much hard for Republicans to support a bulk successful the House. 

"I person questions astir the House, and immoderate of that comes from what I judge whitethorn person been a small spot of overreach with respect to redistricting," helium said. Republicans kicked disconnected mid-decade redistricting successful Texas to nett up to 5 seats for Republicans astatine the behest of Mr. Trump, but Democrats successful different states responded to nett much seats for themselves, making the result unlikely. 

But Tillis said his "beef" astir the GOP's chances successful the midterms "almost ever relates to what I see to beryllium however things are being done." 

Tillis praised the president's nationalist information argumentation concerning NATO and said helium intends to shield his legacy.

"And if I person to talk bluntly, that's what I'm going to bash successful my remaining clip successful the Senate," Tillis said.

Miller and Noem person faced scrutiny pursuing the shooting deaths of 2 American citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, past period by migration agents amid the Trump administration's crackdown successful Minneapolis. Dubbed Operation Metro Surge, migration enforcement agents person targeted undocumented immigrants successful the Minneapolis area, but White House borderline czar Tom Homan announced Thursday that the arguable cognition volition reason by adjacent week.

Tillis has been captious of Miller and Noem and called them "amateurs." He was the first Republican to publically request Noem's resignation, accusing her of taking the medication "into the ground" connected the contented of migration that Republicans "should own."

"But they person destroyed that for Republicans, thing that got the president elected," Tillis earlier told reporters connected Capitol Hill. "They person destroyed it done their incompetence."

But Tillis has not said whether helium would ballot to impeach Noem, which would necessitate a two-thirds ballot successful the Senate. 187 House Democrats person cosponsored the impeachment solution against Noem, but it is improbable to wide a elemental majority.