Former vice presidents, their spouses and children younger than 16 typically only continue to receive protection by the Secret Service for up to six months after leaving office under a law passed by Congress in 2008. The administration’s decision to pull back Harris’ detail comes seven months after her term as vice president ended.
The U.S. Secret Service ran a threat assessment on Harris and did not find anything alarming, nothing that would warrant extending her detail past the usual six months, according to sources familiar with the situation.
The decision by Mr. Trump was first reported by CNN.
Since returning to the White House for a second term, Mr. Trump’s administration has removed Secret Service protection for several people, including John Bolton, who was the president’s national security adviser in his first term, and Hunter Biden and Ashley Biden, the children of former President Joe Biden.
