It’s a match made in the West Wing: Katie Rose Waldman and Stephen Miller, both current White House employees, married Sunday at the Trump International Hotel in Washington.
Trump attended the nuptials after returning to the District from Florida, where he served as the grand marshal of the Daytona 500.
According to a RealClearPolitics reporter’s audio from the event, the president made a speech congratulating the new couple while also cracking a few jokes.
“He is the only one who could have a damn wedding in the middle of Presidents’ Day weekend. I’m sure it didn’t affect anybody here,” Trump said.
The ceremony was officiated by Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone, a senior adviser to U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, according to the New York Times. (The White House did not return requests for details regarding the wedding and a spokeswoman for Trump International Hotel declined to discuss the event.)
Other people in the Trump orbit also attended the event, including former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, who tweeted a photo with his wife, Sally, and the newly married couple.
Spectacular and very special wedding tonight with new bride and groom Stephen and Katie Miller! So much fun and still going with @realDonaldTrump having fun and the band is going strong! pic.twitter.com/1LreZhe2pd
— Reince Priebus (@Reince) February 17, 2020
Before joining the executive office, Waldman worked as a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security under Kirstjen Nielsen’s leadership, followed by a short stint as communications director for Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.).
Miller was a senior policy adviser on the Trump campaign in January 2016 before being promoted to policy director for the president’s transition team later that year. He is credited with helping engineer the president’s hard-line immigration policies, which include family separation and a travel ban. The same month Miller and Waldman were engaged, a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center published emails that Miller sent to conservative news website Breitbart, in which he promoted white nationalist talking points.
