Stephen Miller, a senior policy adviser to President Donald Trump, has tested positive for coronavirus, an administration official says.
Miller, 35, tested positive for the virus on Tuesday after working remotely for the prior five days and testing negative every day through yesterday, according to NBC News reporter Hallie Jackson.
Miller is currently in quarantine. His wife, Katie Miller, tested positive for COVID-19 in May, but returned to work as Vice President Mike Pence's top spokeswoman after fully recovering from the infection at the time.
Katie Miller, who is currently pregnant, has been a key figure in Pence's preparations for Wednesday's vice presidential debate with Senator Kamala Harris in Salt Lake City.
She is currently in Utah with the vice president's traveling party, an administration official told DailyMail.com.
Hope Hicks and Stephen Miller (together right) are now positive for COVID-19 a week after flying on Marine One with Jared Kushner (left) on September 30
Stephen Miller's wife Katie Miller (with him above) tested positive for coronavirus in May and recovered. She is a spokeswoman for Vice President Pence and traveled with Pence to Utah ahead of the vice presidential debate on Wednesday
Miller was involved in Trump's debate prep last week, before the president announced a positive test for COVID-19 early on Friday
On Tuesday, White House physician Jesse Shonau said in a memo that Pence had tested negative for the virus earlier in the day.
'Vice President Mike Pence is encouraged to go about his normal activities and does not need to quarantine,' the memo stated.
Katie Miller had previously mocked plans to install a plexiglass barrier between the two candidates at the vice presidential debate, saying: 'If Senator Harris wants to use a fortress around herself, have at it.'
Stephen Miller was last seen publicly on September 30, boarding Marine One with Director of Oval Office Operations Nicholas Luna, Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Dan Scavino, Senior Advisor to the President of the United States Jared Kushner and counselor to the President Hope Hicks.
Hicks tested positive for COVID-19 two days later, and Luna tested positive on October 3.
Stephen Miller (seen in June), a senior policy adviser to President Donald Trump, has tested positive for coronavirus, an administration official says
Stephen Miller (second from right) was last seen publicly on September 30, boarding Marine One with (left to right) Director of Oval Office Operations Nicholas Luna, Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Dan Scavino, Senior Advisor to the President Jared Kushner and counselor to President Hope Hicks
From left Miller, Hicks, and Kushner board Marine One with President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday September 30
Stephen Miller is now at least the 15th Trump aide to test positive for the virus. The president and first lady announced their positive result early on Friday, October 2.
Nearly all members of the White House 'cluster' either attended a Rose Garden ceremony on September 26, or participated in debate prep with Trump ahead of the September 29 presidential debate.
Miller was a key participant in Trump's debate prep in the White House Map Room.
Also participating in the prep were Hicks, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway, and Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien, all of whom have tested positive for COVID-19 since the debate.
Kellyanne Conway and Chris Christie are both seen at the September 26 Rose Garden ceremony for Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett. Both then helped with Trump's debate prep, and later tested positive for coronavirus.
Miller, a top aide who has remained in his post since inauguration, is among the administration's most controversial figures.
He is seen as the mastermind behind Trump's travel ban against several majority-Muslim countries, as well as the scuttled policy of arresting all people who entered the country illegally, resulting in the separation of children from family members.
Miller's grandmother Ruth Glosser died at the age of 97 in July, with family members blaming coronavirus.
At the time, Miller denied that coronavirus was to blame for her death, telling Mother Jones through a spokesperson that Glosser had contracted the virus in March.
'She was diagnosed with COVID in March and passed away in July so that timeline does not add up at all,' the spokesperson said. 'His grandmother died peacefully in her sleep from old age.'