Exclusive | Heartless marketing firm led by Kamala Harris aide lays off 10% of staff after election wipeout

WASHINGTON — A large corporate marketing firm co-founded and led by Stephanie Cutter, a senior adviser to Kamala Harris’s failed presidential campaign, recently laid off 10% of its staff amid a steep revenue disruption following the Democrat’s loss, The Post has learned.The nine-person layoff unleashed an outpouring of criticism about allegedly hypocritical treatment of employees by Precision Strategies, which is staffed by prominent Democrats and counts many of America’s top corporations and unions as clients.“She was telling people that she lost a lot of business after the election.And she has also been telling people companies are being told by the [Trump] administration not to hire Democrats,” a source told The Post.“I think some of it is saving face and the other part is she is not good.

And she is very, very mean.I feel bad for her teams but she is truly a mean person and it is catching up with her,” added the source, who has not worked at the company.Precision Strategies does branding and public affairs for such clients as Bank of America, Comcast, CVS, General Electric, Gilead, Humana, IBM and Microsoft.Google and Goldman Sachs also have business relationships with the firm, which employs other former Democratic advisers at its offices in DC and Manhattan, including fellow Harris campaign adviser David Plouffe.“I suspect Cutter will live up to her last name more than ever — because it’s only cuts coming for has-been businesses like hers that offer anything but ‘precision’,” a different Democratic insider said.“That 10% cut will only grow as clients look for strategists who offer better advice that solves problems, wins the day and wins elections.”Cutter’s defenders argue that she’s direct and demanding but not unkind and one said that she may have been commiserating with others about post-election business challenges when she commented on the impact of Donald Trump’s victory.“To the extent anything was discussed, it�...