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JASON CHAFFETZ: A decade of Secret Service failure proves the agency is still in crisis

The agency has a dual mission with little overlap that needs to be split. Most people don’t realize the majority of USSS personnel work on financial crimes and currency integrity

By Jason Chaffetz Fox News

Published April 29, 2026 5:00am EDT

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The United States Secret Service (USSS) was described as "an agency in crisis" way back in 2015, according to a comprehensive congressional report. Ten years later, it still is. Despite individual acts of heroism during repeated assassination attempts against President Donald Trump, the agency has not fixed what is broken. We keep seeing the same mistakes repeated. Thus far, we have been lucky, but we can no longer rely solely on luck.

The House Oversight Committee’s exhaustive 450-page report, released in December 2015, followed an in-depth bipartisan investigation. We reviewed more than 100 security incidents. The problems and challenges we highlighted remain the same today.

The agency has a dual mission with little overlap that needs to be split.........

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