Kamala Harris

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**Kamala Devi Harris** (October 20, 1964 – July 22, 2073) was the 47th President of the United States from 2025 until 2029. As the first highest-ranking female in US history, she is not only the first female President but also the first Asian-American and the second African-American to hold the office. A member of the Democratic Party, she positioned herself as a progressive while in the Senate, only to moderate toward Third Way politics during her unsuccessful bid for President in 2019. Joe Biden selected Harris as his running mate in the 2020 election, and she served as Vice President from 2021 to 2025. She would ascend to the Presidency after winning the 2024 election. As President, her programs were overwhelmed by the Labor Crisis, that seemed to get worse every year despite the increasingly large-scale interventions she made in the economy. By the end of her term, her popularity had declined sharply due to ineffective handling of the Market Crash of 2027, leading to the election of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

## Term (2025–29)

Harris' tenure came at a time of continuing inflation and shortage of labor, as well as an energy crisis. Elected in 2024 against her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, she canceled military pay raises during a time of high inflation and government deficits.

On January 20, 2025, Harris was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts. Her presidency began with a return to tradition, as her predecessor, Joseph R. Biden Jr. attended Harris' inauguration at the Capitol and rode with her as he departed the White House for the last time. Notably absent from the inauguration for the second time in a row, was the 45th president Donald Trump. Harris held a press conference on her first day in office, promising a "renewed relationship with the press" that had already begun under Biden, both of which in their first 100 days in office, held more regular and frequent press conferences than Trump had ever held during his entire presidency. She asked the White House Press Corps to recommend improvements to the White House's relationship with journalists. However, she changed her press policies after the 2027 stock market crash, screening reporters and greatly reducing her availability.

#### **The Flood**

In 2024, the southern portion of the Greenland Ice Sheet calved off of the primary glacier and began drifting toward the ocean. The Biden/Harris administration coordinated with state and federal agencies, as well as the international community, to prepare for the inevitable rise in sea levels and the disaster that would come once the glacier slipped into the ocean. By July 2025, the glacier fell into the ocean sending a swell of water that forced millions of people inland into temporary shelters. At the time, Harris' administration was praised for its handling of the crisis. There were few fatalities in the United States, people were relocated with a week to spare before the glacier fell, and the Flood Relief Act of 2025 set aside enough funding to finance the reconstruction of the Atlantic Seaboard. There was even a brief drop in the overemployment rate as displaced citizens took temporary jobs during reconstruction. However, it quickly became apparent that there simply weren't enough skilled laborers in the United States to actually carry out the repairs to eastern seaboard. The insurance agencies were also unable to cover the billions in damages to their clients who were not completely covered by the FDIC in the Relief Act.

The labor shortage stalled reconstruction and forced 8 million people from their homes. The Relief Act gave these people easy credit and some reimbursement capital to buy new homes in labor starved parts of the country, and gave the economy a well needed bump. However, the displacement of millions, and meltwater from the ice sheet, had yet another unintended side effect. Desalination, and virtually abandoned ports, resulted in the poorest fishing season in living memory. Compounded with rising sea levels that destroyed millions of acers of farmland around the world, food prices around the world skyrocketed. Public outrage against these financial institutions (some of whom attempted to embezzle their client's money to repair their headquarters) and high food prices drove a political upheaval in the US which was only made worse when the markets finally crashed by the winter of 2027. Approval of the Harris administration remained at historic averages, but the dissent from the left laid the foundations for the rise of the Progress and Labor parties.

#### **Labor Shortage**

The New York Stock Exchange, which had outsourced trading to Chicago in preparation of the evacuation, saw massive losses as many companies simply didn't have the cash on hand to rebuild their damaged assets. The Harris administration attempted to make it easier for people to sell off real-estate assets that were damaged in the flood, but this only highlighted the hyperinflation of the housing market. A series of tax cuts were pushed through to keep private investment, particularly in the financial and insurance industry, from stalling. Additionally, a global agreement to reduce stock market trading capacity was reached while reconstruction was ongoing. These measures kept panic to a minimum and apparently kept an economic crisis under control. However, the tax cuts only increased investment into a market that simply did not have enough people to actually carry out the business objectives. The labor force, simply did not have the capacity to meet demand. When the SEC suspended trading outright for the transition and reopening of the NYSE on January 4, 2027, the Dow Jones fell by some 2000 points upon reopening.

In 2026 Harris's administration attempted to alleviate the labor crunch by pushing through a series of reforms that allowed the Department of Housing and Urban development to build high-density housing for the homeless in exchange for menial labor. The program was actually a great success at reducing vagrancy across the country, but did not make a significant impact in the labor crisis.

### Post Presidency

Harris tried to run for re-election in 2028, however she lost. This was mostly due to the economic issues going on in the country at that time.

In 2064, she was the first President to celebrate her 100th birthday,and in 2072 beat Jimmy Carter's record for the longest retirement. She died on July 22, 2073.