White House aide Stephen Miller appeared more calm and collected during a Friday night interview with Fox News after going nuclear on CNN earlier in the week. Miller got himself so worked up on Tuesday chatting with CNN anchor Brianna Keilar that she literally had to tell him to “calm down” as he railed against critics of Elon Musk’s DOGE amid ongoing federal cuts.

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller became increasingly frustrated during an appearance on CNN, in which he stood by the Trump administration’s work to downsize federal spending with the Department of Government Efficiency.

Nearly every day since President Donald Trump entered office three weeks ago, he has convened a huddle in the West Wing with two of his senior-most aides to plot out the next steps dramatically reshaping the federal government.