Top aide to Kamala Harris will depart for role at Defense Department: report

A high aide to Vice President Kamala Harris will go away her function to take a brand new place on the Protection Division, including to a sample of exits from Harris’ workplace in latest months.

Sabrina Singh, Harris’ present deputy press secretary, will vacate the workplace and tackle a brand new function with the U.S. Protection Division, in response to an inside electronic mail detailing workers adjustments in Harris’ workplace that was obtained by CBS Information.

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Jamal Simmons, who serves as communications director for the vp, wrote in regards to the “unhappy information” of Singh’s departure within the memo. “We’ll miss her institutional information, strategic counsel and rapid-fire e-mail fingers,” Simmons stated, as reported by the outlet.

Singh, a key adviser to Harris, whom she labored alongside through the basic election and the presidential transition, was first employed by Harris in March 2020 to function her communications for political issues. Singh had served in her present function because the Biden administration first took workplace in January 2021.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks throughout a digital assembly with the Ebenezer Baptist Church in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day within the Eisenhower Government Workplace Constructing in Washington, D.C., Jan. 17, 2022.
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Harris’ new deputy press secretary will likely be Ernesto “Ernie” Apreza, in response to the report. Apreza had been serving within the White Home Workplace of Public Engagement and labored on the 2020 Biden-Harris marketing campaign. She additionally assisted with Harris’ presidential marketing campaign in 2019.

Simmons stated the brand new press secretary had already been employed and that “she will likely be a implausible chief” of the communications staff, in response to the report. A supply who spoke with the outlet stated Harris has plans to “reconfigure” her communications division.

In January, Harris was compelled to pick a brand new communications director following an onslaught of exits from her workplace.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to members of the press as Symone D. Sanders seems to be on at Greenville-Spartanburg Worldwide Airport in Greer, South Carolina, earlier than she boards Air Power Two to return to Washington June 14, 2021.
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Harris’ chief spokesperson, Symone Sanders, resigned in December. Vincent Evans, who served because the vp’s deputy director of public engagement and intergovernmental affairs for almost a 12 months, introduced in a press release to CNBC in January his intent to go away the workplace to function government director of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Peter Velz, director of Harris’ press operations, additionally served his final day on the job in January. Velz took on a brand new function on the State Division and introduced his choice to go away Harris’ workplace in November.

Fox Information didn’t obtain a right away response from the White Home.