Punishing hours, dilapidated facilities and an ill-conceived retiree program left the agency without the personnel it needed in a year of threats and violence.
The NY Daily had a good follow up to this. They’re underfunded for what they’re currently being asked to do. Increased polarization and violent rhetoric is forcing them to guard more and more people. And their funding isn’t matching their increased span of guard duty. They’re working a lot of overtime, not getting paid for it, and quitting.
Also, since they got rolled into the DHS, the DHS has been taking money that should probably go to the Secret Service, and they’ve been using it for immigration policing.
I think they’re funded just fine, but recent events have created some unusual expenditures for the SS.
Uh, they are called the USSS, for reasons.
Yes, the United States Schutzstaffel.
The NY Daily had a good follow up to this. They’re underfunded for what they’re currently being asked to do. Increased polarization and violent rhetoric is forcing them to guard more and more people. And their funding isn’t matching their increased span of guard duty. They’re working a lot of overtime, not getting paid for it, and quitting.
Also, since they got rolled into the DHS, the DHS has been taking money that should probably go to the Secret Service, and they’ve been using it for immigration policing.
That makes a lot of sense, and very much tracks with what I’ve experienced of DHS. Scumbags.