Katie Miller’s New Year’s Eve pregnancy announcement was supposed to be personal. It wasn’t. Within hours, social media had transformed it into fodder for speculation about her former boss, Elon Musk.
Miller, 34, revealed she and her husband, Stephen Miller—the White House deputy chief of staff notorious for crafting hardline immigration policy—are expecting their fourth child. She shared a red-carpet photo from President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago New Year’s Eve party, cradling her bump, captioned simply: “Happy New Year.”
The reveal immediately reignited long-running rumors about Miller’s employment history and her professional proximity to the billionaire CEO. As noted by The Daily Beast, the pregnancy announcement “gave new life” to these speculative threads.
Miller isn’t just anyone in the conservative orbit. After leaving the White House in 2024, she took a position on Musk’s DOGE squad under “special government employee” status, following her stint on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. She remained a Musk colleague until August 2025, when she launched her own podcast, The Katie Miller Show. Musk subsequently unfollowed both Millers on X, but her professional link to him persisted in the public imagination.
The timing of her pregnancy—announced shortly after leaving Musk’s employ—set social media ablaze.
Reddit users joked, theorized, and drew wild connections, one posting, “Get out the DNA kit,” while anti-MAGA commentator Reed Galen captioned the news: “Elon Musk is at it again, apparently”.
Musk himself has stayed silent on the personal news, though he did share one of Miller’s posts criticizing California, echoing her husband’s anti-immigration stance.
The juxtaposition of personal life, media influence, and political commentary highlights how deeply intertwined conservative networks have become with tech billionaires’ spheres of influence.
Miller’s podcast amplifies this scrutiny. Her December interview with Musk is now her most-viewed episode, racking up over 700,000 views. By comparison, her chat with Vice President JD Vance has just under 100,000 views. The interview was part admiration tour, part optics exercise, with Miller praising Musk as “inspirational” and insisting he treats employees well. Musk, in turn, downplayed the criticism Miller noted employees sometimes hear, claiming, “Yeah, I don’t yell,” and insisting talented employees can leave at any time.
