President Trump’s deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, said Wednesday that the administration will add “thousands more resources” to its crime crackdown in Washington, D.C.
Miller made the remarks at a burger restaurant inside Union Station during the afternoon. He was joined by Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The three officials stopped at the Shake Shack to buy food for National Guard troops patrolling the station as part of the administration’s security efforts.
As they walked through the train hall, Miller, Vance, and Hegseth were met with boos and heckles from travelers. Inside the restaurant, Miller said the reaction only strengthened the administration’s resolve.
“I’m glad they’re here today,” Miller said of the hecklers, “because me, Pete and the vice president are all going to leave here and, inspired by them, we’re going to add thousands more resources to this city to get the criminals and the gang members out of here.”
The White House and Miller did not immediately respond to questions about what specific resources would be deployed.
The scene at Union Station, with shouting and jeering, gave Miller and the other officials a chance to portray themselves as pushing back against what they described as a city overrun by disorder. “All these demonstrators that you’ve seen out here in recent days, all these elderly white hippies, they’re not part of the city and never have been,” Miller said.
