# Kamala Harris ## The power she actually held Kamala Harris was vice president of the United States from 20 January 2021 to 20 January 2025. The Constitution gives the vice president the Senate gavel and succession. It does not make her co-author of every Biden statute. As of August 2026 she holds no executive office. ## What went wrong, and what is proven The sharpest criminal-justice costs that are dated and named are [truancy prosecutions as San Francisco DA](/facts/us-harris-truancy-2008) and [opposition to Proposition 19](/facts/us-harris-prop19-2010) as attorney general. The [SF crime-lab scandal](/facts/us-harris-crime-lab-2010) is a completed disclosure failure her office owned a share of. [Guatemala, 7 June 2021](/facts/us-harris-do-not-come-2021) is a completed ‘do not come’ message on a migration assignment. [Encounter numbers](/facts/us-harris-encounters-2022) rose on a border she did not operationally command; store complex. The [2024 ticket](/facts/us-harris-2024-loss) lost on 5 November. [Gaza as VP](/facts/us-harris-gaza-2024) is a completed administration line she defended, not a finding that she wrote IDF orders. [Kavanaugh 2018](/facts/us-harris-kavanaugh-2018) is a completed Senate interrogation that polarised. The [2019 withdrawal from the 2020 primary](/facts/us-harris-2020-drop) is a completed campaign end. ## What improved, and how far [ARP tie-break, 5 March 2021](/facts/us-harris-arp-2021) and [IRA tie-break, 7 August 2022](/facts/us-harris-ira-2022) are completed constitutional votes. The [2012 national mortgage settlement](/facts/us-harris-mortgage-2012) is a completed AG instrument. [Senate 2016](/facts/us-harris-senate-2016), [DA 2004](/facts/us-harris-da-2004), [AG 2010](/facts/us-harris-ag-2010), and [VP 2021](/facts/us-harris-vp-2021) are completed elections. [Respect for Marriage 2022](/facts/us-harris-rfma-2022) is a completed statute she whipped as VP. [Dobbs-era advocacy](/facts/us-harris-dobbs-2022) is a completed political campaign, not a Supreme Court opinion she wrote. The [2024 nomination](/facts/us-harris-nominate-2024) is a completed party instrument. [PACT Act tie-break](/facts/us-harris-pact-2022) is a completed veterans-health vote. ## Shared responsibility, and what the score does not say The score does not say that every CBP encounter is a vice-presidential order. It does not say that an IRA vote rebates truancy court. Confidence is high on roll-calls and settlements, and medium where DHS, DOJ, and later CPI series sit between a speech and a welfare indicator. Related people are Biden, Trump, Vance, Pelosi, Newsom, Walz counterparts if live, von der Leyen, Macron, Zelenskyy, Modi, Guterres, Meloni. Official carriers include Congress.gov, California DOJ, and the Biden White House archive. A vice president is powerful enough to own those tie-breaks. She is not powerful enough to be the unique author of a Fed print or of CBP, and the dossier keeps that line visible. Keep 7 June 2021 off an IRA vote. Keep truancy off a historic first. If those distinctions feel pedantic, they are the alternative to a campaign film and the alternative to a cartoon. The 2004 DA oath, the 2010 AG election, the 2016 Senate win, and the 2021 vice-presidential oath are different offices. Treat them as different charging and voting powers. A parent in truancy court is not a bank in a 2012 settlement. A Guatemala lectern is not a Senate clerk’s roll-call. Biden remains the president on every statute she tied. [Schumer](/people/chuck-schumer)’s caucus remains the body that wrote the text. CBP remains the line agency. The Fed remains the rate-setter. Those names stay on the file so a historic first cannot swallow them. As of August 2026 she is a private citizen. That fact does not unwrite the ties, the settlement, or the 2024 certificate. It also does not convert a lost ticket into a licence to load every later Trump statute onto this page. Keep 5 November 2024 as a completed election. Keep 20 January 2025 as the end of the vice presidency, stored as neighbouring time, not as a second copy of the loss. ## Dated facts - Harris loses the 2024 presidential election to Donald Trump. https://factrail.ai/facts/us-harris-2024-loss. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-defeats-harris-2024-presidential-election-2024-11-06/, https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college. - 2024: Harris selects Tim Walz as her vice-presidential running mate. https://factrail.ai/facts/us-harris-walz-2024. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-picks-walz-running-mate-2024-08-06/, https://kamalaharris.com/. - 2024: Harris becomes the Democratic presidential nominee after Biden withdraws. https://factrail.ai/facts/us-harris-nominate-2024. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-drops-out-endorses-harris-2024-07-21/, https://democrats.org/. - 2024: Vice President Harris defends US support for Israel while calling for more Gaza aid. https://factrail.ai/facts/us-harris-gaza-2024. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/harris-gaza-aid-israel-ceasefire-2024-03-03/, https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/. - 2024: Harris addresses the Munich Security Conference on Ukraine and transatlantic security. https://factrail.ai/facts/us-harris-munich-2024. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/harris-munich-security-conference-ukraine-2024-02-16/, https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/. - 2023: Harris represents the US at the UK AI Safety Summit as the White House issues an AI executive order. https://factrail.ai/facts/us-harris-ai-eo-2023. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/technology/harris-uk-ai-summit-white-house-executive-order-2023-10-30/, https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/10/30/executive-order-on-the-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence/. - Harris hosts and participates in the 2023 US–India state visit cluster. https://factrail.ai/facts/us-harris-india-2023. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/harris-modi-state-visit-2023-06-22/, https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/. - 2022: The Respect for Marriage Act is signed; Harris had whipped Senate support. https://factrail.ai/facts/us-harris-rfma-2022. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-signs-respect-for-marriage-act-2022-12-13/, https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8404. - 2022: Southwest border encounters remain at record levels during Harris’s migration assignment. https://factrail.ai/facts/us-harris-encounters-2022. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-border-encounters-record-harris-migration-2022/, https://www.cbp.gov/. - 2022: Harris casts the Senate tie-breaking vote for the Inflation Reduction Act. https://factrail.ai/facts/us-harris-ira-2022. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/senate-passes-inflation-reduction-act-harris-tie-break-2022-08-07/, https://www.senate.gov/. - 2022: Harris casts a Senate tie-breaking vote on the PACT Act for veterans’ toxic-exposure care. https://factrail.ai/facts/us-harris-pact-2022. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/senate-pact-act-harris-tie-break-2022-08-02/, https://www.senate.gov/. - 2022: Harris presides as the Senate passes the CHIPS and Science Act. https://factrail.ai/facts/us-harris-chips-2022. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/senate-passes-chips-science-act-2022-07-27/, https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4346. ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/people/kamala-harris