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The bill seeks to centralize the Secret Service within the Executive Office of the President to improve coordination and impose a swift transfer timeline while preserving employee pay, but it concentrates authority in the Presidency and creates risks to oversight, operational continuity, and budget transparency.
Taxpayers and national security stakeholders: moving the Secret Service into the Executive Office of the President may improve coordination with White House officials and strengthen protective mission effectiveness.
Federal Secret Service personnel (law-enforcement and federal employees): officers keep their current pay and conditions during the transfer, avoiding immediate pay or benefit disruptions for staff.
Federal employees and taxpayers: the one-year deadline for completing the transfer reduces prolonged transition uncertainty and creates a clear timeline for moving assets, contracts, and liabilities.
Taxpayers and the public: concentrating the Secret Service under the Executive Office of the President increases presidential control over a law-enforcement body, which could weaken independent oversight and checks on presidential-protection operations.
Secret Service personnel and mission partners: broad reorganization authority and shifting command structures could cause short-term disruption to protective and investigative operations during and after the transfer.
Taxpayers and budget overseers: moving contracts, assets, and liabilities into the Executive Office may expose funding decisions to direct presidential control and reduce transparency and accountability over expenditures.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Transfers the U.S. Secret Service from DHS to the Executive Office of the President and establishes a presidentially appointed Director; all personnel, assets, contracts, and liabilities move with preserved pay and conditions.
Official title: To establish the United States Secret Service within the Executive Office of the President.
Introduced May 7, 2026 by Jared Moskowitz · Last progress May 7, 2026
Transfers the U.S. Secret Service from the Department of Homeland Security into the Executive Office of the President and establishes a Director of the Service appointed by the President. All Secret Service personnel, assets, contracts, authorities, and liabilities move to the transferee office with existing pay and conditions preserved, and the transfer must be completed within one year of enactment.