Kam’s office is ‘abusive’

Vice President Kamala Harris’ office is “chaotic” with a “tense and at times dour” atmosphere — a place where, as one source put it, “people feel treated like s--t,” according to a Politico report published Wednesday.

The report, which cited nearly two dozen “current and former vice presidential aides, administration officials and associates of Harris and Biden,” pointed the finger at Harris herself for the dysfunction, as well as at Tina Flournoy, a longtime Democratic operative who is Harris’ chief of staff.

“People are thrown under the bus from the very top, there are short fuses and it’s an abusive environment,” said the same source who claimed staffers are “treated like s--t.” “It’s not a healthy environment and people often feel mistreated.”

Sources quoted by Politico described an insular environment marked by a failure to get on the same page for big moments, like the announcement of Harris’ trip last week to the US-Mexico border.

According to Politico, Flournoy’s efforts to protect Harris from flak have led to Flournoy dismissing or ignoring staff ideas, refusing to delegate responsibility, unnecessarily prolonging decisions, and blaming those under her for bad outcomes.

So complete is Flournoy’s control over who sees and speaks with Harris, the report states, that even a friend of Harris who tried to connect the vice president with a top Democratic donor for a meeting waited weeks for a response before being told Harris was too busy.

Symone Sanders, a Harris senior adviser and chief spokesperson, decried Politico’s anonymous sources as “cowards.”