According to Josh Rogin's piece, Steve Bannon confronted John Kelly at the Department of Homeland Security on the evening of Jan. 28 telling him not to administer the waiver. | Getty White House denies report Bannon met with Kelly to stop green-card waiver

The White House says chief strategist Steve Bannon did not travel to meet Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on the night The Washington Post reported that Bannon personally attempted to stop Kelly from issuing a waiver for green-card holders, following the implementation of President Donald Trump's immigration order.

The Post on Saturday published a widely read reported-opinion piece by columnist Josh Rogin chronicling divisions among White House aides and departments following Trump's Jan. 27 signing of an immigration order that bans Syrian refugees from coming to the U.S. and stops visas from being issued to seven Muslim-majority countries, sparking widespread chaos at U.S. airports.


Kelly issued a waiver on Jan. 29 that allowed permanent residents, or green-card holders, to be allowed back into the country.

According to Rogin's piece, Bannon confronted Kelly at the Department of Homeland Security on the evening of Jan. 28 telling him not to administer the waiver. Kelly refused, according to two administration sources cited by the Post.

The Post attached a note, signed by editorial page editor Fred Hiatt, to the top of the piece saying that although the paper sought comment from the DHS, it had not sought comment from the White House before the piece’s publication. The note also contained a denial by White House press secretary Sean Spicer that Bannon had traveled to meet Kelly on the night in question.

The piece was later updated, dropping all references to the meeting at DHS.

Hiatt told The Huffington Post that The Washington Post “still stand[s] by that they had a disagreement over whether green card holders should be included,” and that the Post responded to Spicer's statements by trying to “correct where it needed correcting and hold ourselves accountable.”

The travel ban is on hold following a Friday ruling by federal judge James Robart, who halted the immigration order.