It’s the carrot or the stick, Kamala has no power that the DNC doesn’t let her have. They will either pay her off, or cut her off from the money train.
There’s always money that can be found for ‘community organizer’ types.
A book deal?
Some corporate board positions?
A college president job?
A DC law firm partnership?
How about the fact that she and Joe are the ones legally entitled to co troll the money that the Biden/Harris campaign (as opposed to the party or PACS) has raised, and the DNC cannot?