Via The Hill, Reps. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) and Russell Fry (R-S.C.) introduced legislation Thursday to pull the Secret Service out of DHS and place it inside the Executive Office of the President. The package also includes bills to make FEMA a Cabinet-level agency and move TSA to the Transportation Department.
Said Moskowitz: "DHS has simply grown too big and too vulnerable to political dysfunction. Secret Service needs help and under the current DHS bureaucracy, that reform is never going to happen."
The strategic read: moving the Secret Service directly under the president resolves a genuine protection-chain problem — but it also eliminates the one layer of institutional distance between the protective detail and direct White House command. Who controls the agents who protect the president matters enormously when the president is also the primary threat to constitutional order. Congress should be clear-eyed about what "direct accountability to the president" actually means in this administration.