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Miller Gaggles with Reporters Outside the White House, May 21, 2026: Cuba, ICE Funding and the $1.8B Anti-Weaponization Fund

May 21, 2026 · Roll Call Factbase Videos · 0:04:10

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What happened

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller took reporters’ questions outside the White House on May 21, 2026, in Roll Call Factbase Videos’ recording. On Cuba, Miller framed the island — a 45-minute flight from U.S. shores — as a generations-old foothold for adversaries, pointed to the administration’s indictment of Raul Castro and its sanctions, and said Cuba’s fate is in its own hands: reform and become “a friend and partner to the United States,” or choose a different path, as he put the choice.

On funding, Miller said nothing is more important than full funding for federal law enforcement, “especially and including the brave heroes of ICE and Border Patrol,” describing Homeland Security Investigations’ portfolio — assassinations plotting work with the Secret Service, child trafficking and smuggling, drug trafficking and counter-cartel investigations — as a public-safety threat if left unfunded, as he argued it. He closed on the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund, saying Americans lived through years of “unimaginable weaponization of the federal government against innocent people” whose lives and livelihoods were destroyed, and calling the settlement, in his words, “just a small measure of the justice that they are owed.”

Why it matters

The gaggle ties Miller’s 2026 agenda together: Cuba pressed as a near-shore security problem, the ICE funding fight framed around HSI’s investigative work rather than deportations alone, and the anti-weaponization fund defended as restitution — the theme Forbes and LiveNOW carried from the same gaggle.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard watch: the $1.8B anti-weaponization fund defended by Miller at this May 21, 2026 gaggle, and the ICE/Border Patrol funding demand he tied to it — flagged for the scoreboard editors; the entry itself remains review-gated.

Sources: Roll Call Factbase Videos, “Stephen Miller Speaks to Reporters Outside the White House — May 21, 2026” (video UZqQq48Xras); transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, never republished verbatim). Alternate carries of the same gaggle recorded in the index: Forbes Breaking News (OLBy5svtALc) and LiveNOW from FOX (oZoRyWkYSbQ).