Posted on 07/18/2026 10:33:30 AM PDT by DFG
Secret Service agents tasked with protecting the Vice President and his family appear to be airing grievances with the Vance family through media leaks.
MSNow published a story about complaints within Vice President JD Vance’s security detail, citing “Secret Service sources,” people with knowledge of his travel, and the frustration of current and former agents. The story focused on a recently planned trip by the Vice President and his son to Joint Base Andrews for a golf lesson, and on agents’ apparent anger over the “inappropriate or even unprecedented use” of government resources.
“[T]he Secret Service staff’s complaints about a planned chopper ride for an elementary school student reflects a building morale problem inside the team of agents assigned to shield Vance and his young family, according to the two people and another person familiar with the agents’ frustration,” the MSNow article states of the trip that was ultimately canceled due to weather.
The article continues to state that, according to “two people and an additional source with knowledge of their travel who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals,” agents are “fed up” with last-minute travel demands made by the VP and his family.
After MSNow broke the news of the vice president’s planned trip to the golf course, it was canceled, the article notes.
Responding to the MSNow claims, an administration official told the Caller that the trip from the Naval Observatory to Joint Base Andrews is the most common and routine flight Marine Two makes. For that particular trip to the golf course, the plans were made because the base is secure and would not impact the public by closing the golf course or roads for a motorcade. Using the helicopter for such travel likely saves resources for local police departments and thousands of motorists, the official added.
“That is RIDICULOUS,” one person with knowledge of the planned golf trip said to MSNow. “Pence and Harris never pulled anything like that.”
“They change everything,” another source told the outlet regarding the Vice President’s shifting schedule. “They don’t stick to their schedules, and that costs shit-tons of taxpayer money.”
The article notes that the VP has recently planned last-minute trips to Middleburg, Virginia, where he is rumored to be searching for a new house. An administration official told the Caller that Marine Two was used for those trips for operational and security reasons, and, once again, to save law enforcement and the public from the inconvenience of a motorcade. Middleburg, Virginia, is about a 45-minute drive from Washington, D.C.
The article also states that the Vice President “plans for foreign and domestic trips change on short notice” after resources have already been mobilized. Diplomatic travel and matters of state arise unexpectedly and must take priority, the administration official explained to the Caller, adding that agents don’t see the full picture behind schedule changes.
Importantly, following a serious scandal in 2012, the Secret Service began requiring employees to sign strict nondisclosure agreements to crack down on media leaks involving protectees’ private information. When signing the documents, agents are informed that they could be terminated or even prosecuted for violating the agreement, the Seattle Times noted at the time.
The VP and his wife have publicly spoken about the struggle of trying to maintain normalcy as a young family while also being protected by the Secret Service. The administration official told the Caller that past presidents and vice presidents have, for the most part, not had young children, and it has been an adjustment for the Vance family. They added that Vance has been more active than past vice presidents and has taken more of a diplomatic role, which has led to rapid schedule changes and increased demands on the detail.
“A motorcade just shuts down streets, right? It means sometimes people can’t get into Mass when they arrive. It means that you have people trickling in after the start because they’re being put through magnetometers, and so we try, especially, we try with timing of Mass and location and everything to mitigate all of these discomforts for all the other people who are just trying to live their lives,” Second Lady Usha Vance said in an interview with CBS News.
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So the MSNBC, MS Now crowd, is now angry about Vance and secret service issues? What the heck???
What did they say about Bidet flying to play golf and vacationing with his alleged criminal enterprise family.
“President Biden’s vacations have generated multiple, differing cost estimates ranging from a documented minimum of $2.2 million up through multi‑million projections of $11–22 million for Delaware trips and broader tallies reaching $30 million when broader logistics are included. The variation reflects which expenses are counted (Secret Service and hotels vs. Air Force One/Marine One flight hours and broader security/logistics) and differing timeframes and data completeness (FOIA disclosures vs. media calculations)”
https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/biden-vacations-taxpayer-costs-f66c96
Some SS agents need to be reassigned.
They would rather him not have any secret service protection, easier for their antifa freaks to kill him
imho all these agents who kiss and tell deserve to be investigated for their role in Trump assassinations and then fired.
they are just too disloyal to have around,
What they’re really saying is that they don’t have enough agents, and that’s been a problem for a while.
“Some SS agents need to be reassigned.” How about fired?!
How about fired?!
Preferably out of a cannon.
No sympathy here for the SS. They get paid to be where ever their protectees are, regardless of their own personal desires. There are many law enforcement agencies out there hiring if they are that unhappy. Plus they get to hire who.es on foreign trips when they can pay them. Stop your beotching. And why hasn’t the SS changes out the Veep’s security detail if there is a problem?
How can they ever hope to clean up the USSS, when they have to choose from the current gene pool? Our society is on the rocks. Only revival can fix it.
I don’t believe this is true.
Preferably out of a cannon.
Made of rabid grizzly bears and great white sharks.
The use of the Presidental jumbo jet for the 15 minute flight from DC to Wilmington DE for the Bidens many beach trips never caused any ruckus. His helicopter would have worked just fine or even the same train he used all the time in the Senate. Fire these bast**ds who can be identified.
Total bs story.
They have to travel around, plans change and they have to be protected.
Manufactured controversy.
Someone or some group are trying to keep Vance off the ‘28 ticket any way possible.
Eff em, they can quit if they won’t do the job. Not that they do it very well in the first place.
Trump needs to put a real hard ass in charge of the Secret Service. Someone like Bannon.
It’s kind of hard to take seriously these gossipy articles that contain no named sources.
I believe msnow is exaggerating what a couple of ss agents said to reflect badly on JD Vance, our next President. I think most of SS assigned to Vance are happy with their assignment. For the agents unhappy and leaked to the drive-by media, relieve them of their employment by the Federal Government.
Maybe it has been too long since a child was part of a first or second family? Did the SS never attend an event for the Obama girls? JD is just a father who wants to spend time with his son. Heartbreaking that any SS agent would begrudged him that part of parenting.
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