President Donald Trump has ended former Vice President Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection.
Trump sent a letter on Thursday, Aug. 28, telling Harris and her team that her Secret Service detail would stop on Sept. 1, according to CNN, NBC News, and Axios.
The letter read, per 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.”
A senior adviser for Harris confirmed the news and said she is “grateful to the United States Secret Service for their professionalism, dedication, and unwavering commitment to safety.”
While former presidents get Secret Service protection for life, a law passed by Congress in 2008 allows former vice presidents, their spouses, and children under 16 to have protection for only six months after leaving office.
A Secret Service official told CNN and NBC News that former President Joe Biden signed an executive memorandum in January extending Harris’ protection to 18 months instead of six.
This change means federal agents will no longer guard Harris in person, monitor her appearances, or check her emails, texts, and social media for threats. They will also stop protecting her Los Angeles home, and agents will be reassigned.
Bob Salladay, a spokesperson for California Governor Gavin Newsom, told CNN that “the safety of our public officials should never be subject to erratic, vindictive political impulses.”
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass also said Trump’s decision “puts the former Vice President in danger” and added she would work with Newsom to ensure Harris’ safety in Los Angeles.
Trump’s administration previously revoked the Secret Service details protecting Biden’s children, Hunter and Ashley Biden, in March 2025. NBC News also reported that former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and other former intelligence officials had their protection removed.
Harris is preparing for a 15-city book tour across the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. for her memoir 107 Days. The tour begins in New York on Sept. 24 and ends in Miami in November. The book covers the “intense, high-stakes, and deeply personal” period of Harris’ 2024 Democratic presidential campaign against Trump, after Biden withdrew from his reelection campaign.
