Trump cancels Kamala Harris’ Secret Service detail that was extended by undisclosed Biden order

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump revoked Kamala Har­ris’ Secret Ser­vice pro­tec­tion on Thurs­day, accord­ing to a copy of a let­ter reviewed .

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.

That is the order Trump can­celed in his let­ter, titled “Mem­o­ran­dum for the Sec­re­tary of Home­land Secu­ri­ty” and dat­ed Thurs­day

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.

The White House and Secret Ser­vice did not imme­di­ate­ly respond to requests for com­ment.

Trump’s end­ing of Har­ris’ pro­tec­tion comes as she soon embarks on a mul­ti-city, high-pro­file book tour around the release of “107 Days,” her new mem­oir on her short pres­i­den­tial cam­paign, set to be released Sep­tem­ber 23. That will put her more in the pub­lic spot­light than she has been since leav­ing office, dur­ing which time she’s attend­ed only a few pub­lic events.

“The Vice Pres­i­dent is grate­ful to the Unit­ed States Secret Ser­vice for their pro­fes­sion­al­ism, ded­i­ca­tion, and unwa­ver­ing com­mit­ment to safe­ty,” Kirsten Allen, a Har­ris senior advis­er.

Pres­i­dents and pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates face fre­quent secu­ri­ty threats. There were two assas­si­na­tion attempts against Trump dur­ing his run for pres­i­dent last year

Har­ris, accord­ing to peo­ple famil­iar with her secu­ri­ty oper­a­tions, faced par­tic­u­lar secu­ri­ty con­cerns giv­en that she was the first woman and first Black woman in the role. Those con­cerns only increased after she became the nom­i­nee, the peo­ple famil­iar with her secu­ri­ty oper­a­tions , and was still at a high lev­el into Jan­u­ary fol­low­ing the cam­paign, with feel­ings about the elec­tion still raw

A Biden spokesper­son declined to com­ment on what led to his sign­ing the order extend­ing Har­ris’ pro­tec­tion

But what will now dis­ap­pear is not just the agents assigned to guard her in per­son, 24–7: Secret Ser­vice pro­tec­tion includes con­stant analy­sis of threat intel­li­gence and cov­er­ing in-per­son sit­u­a­tions, emails, texts and social media. With her detail can­celed, Har­ris aides are wor­ried they will lose the same access to threat warn­ings, the peo­ple famil­iar with her secu­ri­ty oper­a­tions said. Her home, in the mid­dle of Los Ange­les, will also stop being pro­tect­ed by fed­er­al agents

The cost of mount­ing any sim­i­lar lev­el of pro­tec­tion pri­vate­ly would be expen­sive, pos­si­bly going into the mil­lions of dol­lars annu­al­ly

Har­ris’ hus­band, Doug Emhoff, lost his own per­son­al detail on July 21 under the stan­dard pro­vi­sions for a for­mer vice pres­i­den­t’s spouse

Cal­i­for­nia Demo­c­ra­t­ic Gov. Gavin New­som was briefed on Har­ris los­ing her pro­tec­tion late Thurs­day. A per­son famil­iar with the dis­cus­sions that the gov­er­nor’s office could not com­ment on secu­ri­ty arrange­ments or meth­ods which may be acti­vat­ed as a replace­ment.

How­ev­er, New­som spokesper­son Bob Sal­la­day expressed out­rage about Trump mak­ing the change

“The safe­ty of our pub­lic offi­cials should nev­er be sub­ject to errat­ic, vin­dic­tive polit­i­cal impuls­es,” Sal­la­day

Har­ris, as a Los Ange­les res­i­dent, could also receive pro­tec­tion from the city police depart­ment. Los Ange­les May­or Karen Bass and New­som were in touch Thurs­day evening about the sit­u­a­tion

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,” Bass in a state­ment.