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| July 23 2024 | Kimberly Cheatle resigned as Secret Service director following her testimony about the July 13 assassination attempt, which she acknowledged was 'the most significant operational failure at the Secret Service in decades'. |
| November 12 2023 | A Secret Service agent guarding Naomi Biden fired shots at three people breaking into an unoccupied government vehicle in Georgetown. |
| August 2023 | Hawaii wildfires response: Coast Guard rescued 17 lives and assisted 40 survivors, with 157 Coast Guardsmen engaged in crisis response. |
| June 22 2023 | Titan submersible implosion: The Coast Guard led search and rescue efforts and announced the discovery of the submersible's debris. |
| 2022 | The Secret Service assisted in seizing the hacker forum RaidForums. |
| August 24 2022 | Kimberly Cheatle was named the new director of the Secret Service, becoming the first woman to serve as assistant director of protective operations. |
| July 2022 | A Secret Service agent was sent back to the United States from Israel after indiscriminately assaulting a woman walking near a bar in Machane Yehuda. |
| July 15 2022 | The Intercept reported that the Secret Service had erased text messages from January 6 insurrection day, shortly after they were requested by oversight officials investigating the agency's response to the US Capitol riots. |
| April 2022 | Four Secret Service agents were placed on leave for accepting bribes and lavish gifts from two men impersonating federal officers. |
| 2021 | The previously commissioned Douglas Munro cutter was decommissioned. |
| January 6 2021 | Secret Service agents provided security during the Capitol riot and evacuated Vice President Mike Pence. |
| January 5 2021 | Secret Service warned Capitol Police of potential violence from Trump supporters the day before the January 6 Capitol attack. |
| August 2020 | A Secret Service officer shot a man holding a comb during one of President Trump's press conferences at the White House. |
| June 1 2020 | Secret Service advanced on protesters at Lafayette Square before Park Police dispersal warnings, using pepper spray and increasing tensions during a protest. |
| April 15 2020 | The U.S. Secret Service participates in 'Operation Stolen Promise', targeting COVID-19 related fraud. By the end of 2021, they had seized over $1.2 billion in fraudulently obtained relief funds. |
| December 2018 | Franklin LoBiondo Coast Guard Authorization Act: President Donald Trump signed a bill approving a $7.9 billion budget for operating expenses and authorizing 43,000 active-duty employees. |
| 2017 | A new Coast Guard cutter named after Douglas Munro was commissioned and is currently in active service. |
| March 2017 | A member of Vice President Mike Pence's detail was suspended after being caught visiting a prostitute at a hotel in Maryland. |
| 2015 | Two inebriated senior Secret Service agents drove an official car into the White House complex and collided with a barrier, leading to an investigation by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. |
| September 2015 | 18 Secret Service employees accessed Jason Chaffetz's unsuccessful 2003 employment application and discussed leaking the information to media in retaliation for his investigations of agency misconduct. |
| April 14 2012 | U.S. Secret Service placed 11 agents on administrative leave after allegations of bringing prostitutes to hotel rooms in Cartagena, Colombia, while on assignment to protect President Obama, with a dispute over payment the following morning. |
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