A staggering 90% staff turnover rate plagues Vice President Kamala Harris's office, as revealed in a recent watchdog report, highlighting ongoing internal turmoil just as she launches her presidential campaign.
A watchdog report published Monday revealed that the office of Vice President Kamala Harris experienced a turnover rate exceeding 90% over the past three years, continuing a trend of high staff attrition that predates the Biden administration.
According to Open the Books, an organization monitoring government expenditures, approximately 91.5% of Harris's staff have departed since she was sworn in. The report detailed the stark numbers behind the departures:
- Elected in November 2020, Harris took office in January 2021.
- As of March 31, 2024, only four of the initial 47 staffers from her first year remain consistently employed by the Vice President.
- In the past 12 months alone, 24 staffers left, accounting for nearly half of her employees.
The findings emerged a day after Harris launched her presidential campaign, in which she pledged to unite the Democratic Party.
This isn't the first time Harris's office has been scrutinized for internal issues. The Atlantic highlighted "top-to-bottom dysfunction" within her team in October 2023, noting the departures of key staff members such as her chief of staff, communications director, domestic-policy adviser, and national security adviser during her first year and a half in office.
In the last year alone, from April 1, 2023, to March 31, 2024, 24 people left their positions in Harris's office. Reports from Breitbart News in 2021 described a workplace rife with backstabbing, chaos, and dissatisfaction, with staffers feeling "treated like shit" in an environment of "abuse."
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