Kamala Harris faces challenging dynamics in White House full of longtime Biden allies

ice President-elect Kamala Harris will take office in January as a historic first, shattering a glass ceiling and becoming one of the most powerful women in the United States.

But as President-elect Joe Biden fills out his administration, divvying up responsibilities, Harris is at risk of falling into a vice presidential trap as old as the office: holding a job with no specific responsibilities and no clear duties beyond appearing at ceremonial events.

One of her first challenges will be ensuring that she doesn't get relegated to the fringes of an administration filling up with longtime Biden allies and advisers, as has happened with past vice presidents, who have found themselves on the outside of major decisions and unable to secure achievements.

So far, those close to the transition say Harris has operated as a full partner to Biden. She has interviewed Cabinet nominees and offered her input on choices. During meetings, Biden has sought her input, and she has been involved in helping set the incoming administration's policy agenda, one transition official said.

Past administration officials and those close to both Biden and Harris say those dynamics risk deteriorating once the pair enters the intense West Wing environment, where a vice president and her staff have to contend with competing interests throughout the administration.

Success is often found for a vice president through the office's staff, and allies warn that Harris is assembling a team that doesn't have strong relationships with Biden's top aides. Most of Harris' staff members are also new to her and hadn't worked with each other before the transition.

Recent vice presidents have tried, with varying levels of success, to find a job for themselves by taking on important projects in the administration or assuming control of a key sector of the government. When Biden became vice president, he was tasked about a month into the Obama administration with overseeing the federal response to the economic crisis. Current Vice President Mike Pence became the White House's lead negotiator on the Hill in the first months of his tenure for efforts to repeal Obamacare and pass a tax overhaul.

Harris, who has spent just under four years in the Senate and six years as California attorney general, has yet to be given a portfolio or focus for the incoming administration. Rather, Biden has given a broader description of her job, saying during a CNN town hall earlier this month that he plans to rely on Harris to help with whatever is the “urgent need of the moment.” Harris described her role as being the “first and the last in the room.”

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“There's not a single decision I've made yet about personnel or about how to proceed that I haven't discussed it with Kamala first,” Biden said in the CNN interview.

But at the same time, Biden has been building a team of top Cabinet members and senior staffers with whom he has worked for decades, including his chief of staff, secretary of state and defense secretary. Harris, by contrast, has spent just over four months working closely with Biden on the campaign and doesn’t have pre-existing relationships with some of his top Cabinet members and senior advisers.

There has been an inherent tension in past administrations between the interests of the president and vice president, and people close to the Biden campaign have already raised concerns about whether Harris’ own political aspirations could conflict with her boss's agenda. Privately, Biden staffers have said there is a concern that Harris will be focused more on building her own brand than on

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