US vice president, Kamala Harris insists she wasn’t set up to fail by the White House
The Vice President of the United States Kamala Haris has dismissed
speculations that the white house set her up to fail even as she has been
assigned to resolve some of the most daunting challenges facing the nation.
The to-do list given
to the first lady by the white house includes controversial issues such as voting
rights and immigration policy. The issue of voting rights has hit a wall in the
senate while she has been severely criticized especially for the immigration situation
at the southern border.
“I don’t believe I’m being set up to fail,” Harris said on CBS’ “Face the
Nation.” “More important — I’m the vice president of the United States,
anything that I handle is because it’s a tough issue. And it couldn’t be
handled at some other level.”
Harris then dodged a question if she is feeling
that she is getting extra scrutiny because she is a woman from a minority
background. Kamala Harris is the first
US Black and Asian vice president.
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“I’ll leave that for others to deal with. I, you know … I have a job to do,”
she said.
She insisted voting rights legislation isn’t dead, although she shied away from
supporting one possible route to passing it — abolishing the Senate filibuster.
Harris also stood by the controversial comments she made in June, telling
migrants in Latin America: “Do not come.”
“The vast majority of people, wherever they are from, don’t want to leave
home,” she said. “They don’t want their family members to leave.”
Harris reinstated her hope that Democrats can still pass the sweeping social
and climate spending plan called Build Back Better, despite Democratic moderate
Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia saying he would not support the bill in the
evenly divided Senate.
Later, however, she said the legislation should
go through the lengthy committee review process, suggesting there’s room for
Dems to earn his support.
“I was in the Senate for four years before I came here, and I have seen the ups
and downs in terms of legislation,” Harris said. “I’m not giving up, the
president’s not giving up, and frankly, the stakes are too high.”
Kamala Harris also avoided criticizing Manchin
“I think the stakes are too high for this to be in any way about any specific
individual,” she said.
It has been a challenging first year for the Biden
administration, which faced strong criticism for the chaotic withdrawal of U.S.
troops from Afghanistan while Inflation grew at the fastest rate in three
decades, plus the covid-19 pandemic.
“I fully supported the president’s decision to [withdraw] after what was taking
on the fact of being an endless war,” she said.
“We are working through the UN and doing what we need
to do through our friends to provide humanitarian assistance, bypassing the
Taliban to make sure that we are supporting women and girls there,” Harris
said.
