Harris declined to invite Vance to a courtesy call on the vice president’s residence before the inauguration

When JD Vance, his wife Usha and their three young children move into the Naval Observatory residence on Jan. 20, it will be the first time they will set foot in the white Queen Anne-style mansion that has been home to vice presidents since the 1970s reside.

Vice President Kamala Harris has not extended an invitation to a formal meeting or tour, multiple Democratic and Republican sources told CBS News.

In November, Usha Vance reached out through intermediaries to the staff of the home’s current residents, Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, and asked for details, including what they would need for childproofing. Ewan, Vivek and Mirabel Vance are all under eight years old.

The questions were initially dismissed by a Harris political representative. Since then, however, there has been communication between the Vance team and the Marine aides overseeing the residence.

Before Christmas, Navy officials gave a tour of the house to discuss the layout of the residence, the logistics and practicalities of moving in, and to help answer any questions the Vances might have, a person familiar with the call said.

According to sources, Usha Vance spoke to Emhoff for about 40 minutes last week. Harris sources said arrangements were being made to accommodate the Vance children.

Spokespeople for Vance and Harris declined to comment.

But people close to Harris say she was never offered the opportunity to tour the home before her swearing-in in 2021 Covid outbreakshortly after Capitol riot – and Donald Trump had refused to admit his election defeat.

Aides to then-Vice President Mike Pence dispute that an invitation was never offered. They say he quietly gave Harris and Emhoff the opportunity to visit in the final days of the Trump administration. The invitation came discreetly because Trump refused to accommodate the new administration.

There was never a formal meeting between Pence and Harris, Democratic and Republican sources said.

Those close to Harris defended her decision not to invite Vance to visit, a tradition broken during the Trump-Pence administration. Harris’ team focused on a canceled trip abroad and the Wildfires in California.

In 2016, then-Vice President Biden and his wife Jill hosted the Pences at the Northwest Washington residence not long after the election.

“We are just very grateful today for the hospitality of the Vice President and the Second Lady,” Pence said at the time.

Harris did not move into the Naval Observatory residence until April 2021, about three months after her swearing in, because the house was in need of repairs.