I don’t really understand the confusion here.
The VP presides over the Senate, and casts tie breaking votes when needed—something Kamala has done many times. Every 4 years, the VP—in their legislative capacity as president of the Senate—announced the state certifications of electors.
That’s basically it.
In regards to the border, she can meet with people. She can hear concerns, she can maybe elicit verbal agreements from countries south of the border (whether or not they follow through is another matter), and she can make policy recommendations. I suppose she can help try and negotiate deals, VPs do that sometimes. But the truth is that her power—and the power of any VP—to directly fix immigration and border issues is limited.
You ask who has the power? How about Congress for starters? This is the most do-nothing Congress in the modern era. How about the GOP stop endlessly trying to bounce their Speaker, and stop threatening government shutdowns, and do some damn work? Even when we reached across the aisle and put together an immigration bill with things both sides can agree on, those lazy fucks couldn’t be bothered to vote on it. They wanted instead to waste time impeaching Mayorkas for “doing nothing about the border” while they—the ones with power to pass laws—simultaneously did nothing about the border. Peak Republican behavior.
I think we spend too much time talking about Kamala as border czar, and not nearly enough time talking about that amazing time in our history when Trump put Jared Fucking Kushner in charge of Mideast peace. How are things going in that region of the world, I wonder?
