Solar power’s newest friends: MAGA influencers

The nation’s leading clean energy lobby aims to bolster solar power’s standing via conservative media partnerships, polling and Stephen Miller’s wife.

Stephen Miller and Katie Miller attend the 2025 Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 21, 2025. | Samuel Corum/Sipa USA

Environmentalists and solar power proponents have found a pair of surprise allies: Katie Miller and Kellyanne Conway.

Miller, the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, and Conway, the polling guru who led President Donald Trump’s first campaign, raised eyebrows this month when they publicly touted the clean energy source that has come under fire from the Trump administration.

According to a confidential strategy memo obtained by POLITICO, their advocacy is aligned with a campaign by members of the nation’s largest renewable energy lobby group to MAGA-fy solar power — technology that Trump once derided as “a blight on our country.”

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