Trump Strips Harris of Secret Service Detail
Harris, once vice president and briefly her party’s failed nominee, is no longer entitled to the trappings of power.
President Donald Trump has revoked Kamala Harris’ taxpayer-funded Secret Service detail — a protection she was never entitled to under federal law, but which had been quietly extended by Joe Biden in his final days in office.
A Harris spokesperson admitted to Fox News that the protection was officially removed:
A spokesperson for Kamala Harris confirmed to Fox News on Friday that the former vice president’s Secret Service protection has been revoked by President Donald Trump.
Federal law grants former vice presidents just six months of coverage. Harris’ protection expired July 21. But as the Washington Examiner’s Byron York revealed, Biden secretly extended it:
By law, former VPs receive Secret Service protection for 6 months after leaving office. Harris's expired July 21. But unknown until now, Biden, before leaving office, extended her protection for a year after that. That's what Trump canceled. https://t.co/mQ5BLURLZJ
— Byron York (@ByronYork) August 29, 2025
Trump made the decision clear in a memorandum obtained by CNN:
“You are hereby authorized to discontinue any security-related procedures previously authorized by Executive Memorandum, beyond those required by law, for the following individual, effective September 1, 2025: Former Vice President Kamala D. Harris,” the letter reads in full.
Biden’s move had never been disclosed to the public until now. As CNN reported:
“Former presidents receive Secret Service protection for life. Harris, as a former vice president, received six months of protection after leaving office, according to federal law. That period ended on July 21. However, her protection had been extended for an additional year via a directive – not made public until now – signed by then-President Joe Biden shortly before leaving office, according to multiple people familiar with the undisclosed arrangement.”
The timing is critical. Harris is set to begin her book tour later this month for her memoir 107 Days, with appearances scheduled in New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. Without a federal detail, she will rely on expensive private security.
Democrats wasted no time blasting Trump’s decision. California Governor Gavin Newsom’s spokesperson fumed to CNN:
“The safety of our public officials should never be subject to erratic, vindictive political impulses.”
And Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass claimed Trump’s decision was “revenge”:
“This is another act of revenge following a long list of political retaliation in the form of firings, the revoking of security clearances and more. This puts the former Vice President in danger and I look forward to working with the Governor to make sure Vice President Harris is safe in Los Angeles.”
But the law is not on Harris’s side. As Fox News explained:
“A senior White House official told Fox News Digital that vice presidents usually have a Secret Service detail for only six months after departing office.”
In other words: Joe Biden bent the rules in secret. Donald Trump enforced the law. Harris, once vice president and briefly her party’s failed nominee, is no longer entitled to the trappings of power.
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Do we know if the Biden EO was signed with an autopen?
No, she probably signed it herself
She can still have service protection. Just hire some private security but don’t tell anyone about it and it will remain secret.
Funny how the extension was done in secret, but the revocation was done with great fanfare.
“No one is above the law,” and the law says 6 months for Kamala Sugar Britches.
I can see the WaPo/ToNY headlines now: “Trump Tries to Assassinate Former Rival for Presidency”
I suspect Dr. Jill is pleased that Kamala’s secret service protection is gone.
And hers should be the next to go.
She is a former First Lady. Joe and his immediate family are entitled to protection as they should. He was a bad enough president the last thing we need is someone assassinating a US President no matter who they are.
I disagree that they should be treated special because they were once the President. We don’t anoint kings in this country.
Xiden, as an odious and corrupt individual, deserves no protection. However, we cannot afford to have presidents worry excessively about being assassinated after they leave office. So Xiden should be protected as a demonstration of an ironclad policy, however undeserving he is.
It’s not about kingship. It’s about the fact that former presidents remain targets for assassination for the rest of their lives, or at least for a long time after they have left office. If someone is in danger because of his service to the USA, it’s the USA’s duty to protect him.
If the politico’s in CA are so outraged and worried over this let them pay for it. If Kamalalaladingdong hadn’t blown through $1.5 Billion she could afford it herself
She is wealthy enough to afford her own security, and let’s be honest here, to protect her from Democrat leftist extremists with a penchant for political violence.
Harris can pay for protection herself as she gets government pensions.
Not to mention the 20 million dollar advance on her book plus the income from the tickets sales on her book tour.
But that’s already tied up in next month’s vodka order.
So she got all the protection she was legally entitled to.
“Trump strips Harris” was not a series of words I needed to read.
You know, if you’re not going to war when some other country plots to assassinate a former President (and the then-current President’s father), then you’ve really got no excuse for providing taxpayer-funded and government-run security for ex-anythings. They did their time, they’re done now. We provide them a lifetime pension and they can pay for their own security out of that – like every other private citizen in America.
Heck, maybe they can just carry a gun themselves – like all of us who can’t afford our own personal cop do.
But I thought she said she had a Glock? Maybe she will get rid of it in solidarity if California bans them.
You sure she did not say she had a “clock”?
I don’t even want to guess what she possibly said.
yeah
but grubhub can still deliver her drinks
“But who will toss my salads?”
Meh. It is probably worth revisiting how long and how much security protection to provide to VP and for that matter POTUS once their terms end given the political climate and violence. Until then Harris and her advocates should be grateful she got an extra six weeks ish of taxpayer funded protection on top of the statutory 6 mo.
Why revisit? SS Protection is now a political football where the opposition decides whether someone gets it or not.
If the last administration didn’t allow Trump his protections, his legal standing as a former president, his immunity for presidential acts, his access to classified information, his daily, weekly, or monthly briefings – then maybe the current crop of no-goodniks would still have their trappings of power.
My take? We need to rethink giving lifetime pensions for people who only sit in office for a short period of time, with medical benefits, money, and a host of other benefits we can’t get.
Even we veterans had to serve for at least 20 years to get a retirement, and one day less meant you get nothing.
IMO revisiting any/all policies/statutes from time to time to consider if the underlying reason for its existence has been altered or whether it has become too expansive or too narrow based on current events/trend lines is not objectionable. Here given the ramp up in violent political rhetoric and actual attempted assassinations we may want to revise the statutory requirement for protection. Maybe provide automatic increased levels of protection to candidates once they have won a nomination or in an episode like Trump in ’24 pre convention where there’s no real meaningful opposition. Take the discretion to withhold such protection out of the hands of politicians to eliminate mischief. It would not be all that expensive to extend the Secret Service protection for a former VP through the end of the FY or even to a one year mark from end of term.
Presidential pensions only exist because Harry Truman faked poverty and guilted Congress into granting him one.
Nobody is interested in her, either positive or negative. So she doesn’t need security.
Having secret service protection in a cat house would be bad for business.
It would be pretty cool in a Toronto McDonald’s, though.