White House Senior Adviser Gene Sperling Leaves for Harris Campaign

Biden said the economist helped him ‘execute a rescue plan that has led to one of the most equitable and resilient economic recoveries ever.’

Gene Sperling, senior adviser to President Joe Biden, speaks at the White House on Aug. 2, 2021. Susan Walsh/AP Photo

WASHINGTON—White House senior adviser Gene Sperling is leaving the post to join Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.

In an Aug. 5 statement, President Joe Biden thanked Sperling, an economist who oversaw the implementation of Biden’s $1.9 trillion 2021 COVID-19 relief legislation, known as the American Rescue Plan, for his service.