Three days after voters delivered a stinging rebuke at the ballot box, Falls Church’s congressman has a message for Donald Trump and every Republican still standing behind him: stop ignoring the voters or keep losing. “Trump and his Republican allies who continue to embrace the politics of hate, division, and chaos are wildly out of step with what the American people want,” Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) said Friday, “and they will keep suffering more defeats until they listen.”

Beyer, who represents the City of Falls Church as part of Virginia’s 8th District, issued the warning after Trump named Stephen Miller as his new White House Chief of Staff. Beyer said the pick shows the White House is ignoring Tuesday’s results. Miller “embodies the worst elements of the Trump presidency,” Beyer said, and his promotion “shows that Trump has learned nothing from his electoral debacle and has no intention of even trying to work constructively with the next Congress.”

Beyer’s sharpest charges centered on immigration, an issue with deep roots in Falls Church, home to the Eden Center and generations of immigrant families who built businesses and raised kids here. Miller, who has served as Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy and Homeland Security adviser, is the “architect of Trump’s immigration policies that plunged quiet American communities into violence,” Beyer said, charging that on Miller’s orders “peaceful, law-abiding people have been seized from their families and imprisoned or deported for minor civil offenses, and American citizens who protested these actions have been beaten up and even killed by masked paramilitary thugs.”

He didn’t stop at immigration. Beyer called Miller the “brains” behind what he described as “illegal, extrajudicial murders of people in the Caribbean and the Pacific, many of whom may have done nothing wrong.” He also pointed to the 2024 campaign, when he said Miller repeatedly promised that Trump would focus on the economy and avoid new wars, only to become “an ardent defender of Trump’s foolish, unpopular attacks on Iran and other countries.”

Beyer tied the appointment directly to Tuesday’s election, saying the choice of Miller “doubles down on the politics of hatred, lawlessness, and failure that the American people soundly rejected three days ago.” The White House had not responded to Beyer’s statement as of press time.