Rep. Jasmine Crockett, known for her fiery anti-Trump rhetoric and frequent TV appearances, is also accused of mistreating her own staff, sources tell The New York Post.
While she’s gained a strong online following since taking office in 2023, aides say she’s often absent off-camera and harsh toward staff when present. Crockett is rarely seen in her Longworth House office, with one insider claiming she often works from her nearby luxury apartment for weeks at a time.
“She is laying around her apartment, won’t come into the office, and is really just indifferent to staff and will scream at them,” the former aide said. “She is never in the office and is very disengaged. She does her bulls— that goes viral, and then freaks out over the most random things.”
A second source close to Crockett’s team added: “It is widely known that she’s not nice to staff and is just not a really dedicated member focused on constituents.”
A third source described Crockett as “all diva, no wow,” and also stated: “She is focused almost exclusively on being an influencer, not a member of Congress.”
When Crockett appears on Capitol Hill, usually for headline-grabbing Trump attacks, she often has staff drive her in a rented car instead of using their own—an option most lawmakers choose to save costs.
“You’re technically allowed to do this but it’s wildly inefficient. Instead of using the scheduler’s car, she rents a car every week in DC,” one source said. “She expects her staff to drive her around while she’s in the back seat.”
Crockett has developed a reputation for high staff turnover, drawing comparisons to the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, once dubbed the Capitol’s toughest boss. Some staff quit or were fired, while others declined to speak out, fearing retaliation.
“She thinks she’s her own best adviser, she knows best, and has this toxic staff environment,” a source said. “She gets rid of press people because she’s like, ‘I do all of the press stuff.’”
On one occasion told to The Post, Crockett made a legislative aide cry by asking her: “Do you really want to be here? And if not, you can leave!”
After being abruptly fired, a young Black aide told a colleague, “I don’t want to hear Jasmine Crockett talk about helping Black women when she just fired one for no reason.” Though Hill jobs often spread through personal networks, a recent opening on Crockett’s team circulated among Black Democratic women drew no interest, a source said.
“You would think working for a black woman, if you were a young black woman or a young person of color, you would feel empowered in that space,” said a former Democratic congressional aide. “But truly, the only person that she thinks about and cares about is herself.
“The staff is really just an island unto itself, because she doesn’t care about the local issues happening in her district,” this person added. “She’s more focused on, ‘Get me on “The View,” ‘Get me on this late-night talk show.’
The source added: “A lot of [congressional] hearings are on the most boring, basic s—. So how is it at every hearing, it’s about Trump? It’s about Trump again and again and again. And it’s like, she’s not actually doing any real work. She’s at a hearing — we can be talking about the budget, they can be talking about appropriations — and she brings it back to Trump every time. She causes some kind of tension and issue, the hearing has to stop, the chairman has to bang the gavel. It’s like a spectacle and a show … Not everything has to be clipped for MSNBC.”
Crockett has gone through multiple chiefs of staff, with one source saying they don’t last because she resists doing the unglamorous parts of the job and expects constant agreement with her demands.
