President Donald Trump on Monday ended Secret Service protection for former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who had been impeached by the House over his handling of southern border security. Although Mayorkas never went to trial—after a Democrat-controlled Senate dismissed the charges—he was no longer eligible for protection when his term ended in January. However, former President Joe Biden had extended his protection for an additional six months, according to The Washington Post.
Secret Service protection for Hunter and Ashley Biden ended on Monday, the Post reported, coming a week after Trump announced plans to revoke it. By law, former presidents’ children are entitled to protection until age 16, though presidents can extend these measures through executive orders. In this case, Biden had extended their protection for an additional six months, similar to the extension granted to Mayorkas.
“Former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and Mr. Hunter and Ms. Ashley Biden and their families are no longer ‘protectees’ of the United States Secret Service,” Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told the Post in an email.
In February 2024, Mayorkas made history as the first Cabinet secretary to be impeached since 1876, with the House narrowly approving two articles by a 214-213 vote. However, then-Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) pushed to dismiss the charges, arguing that Cabinet members shouldn’t be impeached and removed merely for executing the policies of the administration they serve. The Senate subsequently voted narrowly to dismiss each charge.
In January, Trump ended Secret Service protection for John Bolton, his former national security adviser from his first term. Biden had provided Secret Service protection for Bolton after supposedly after Iran issued a threat against him—an action believed to be retaliation for the killing of General Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, in a strike ordered by Trump at an Iraqi airport in January 2020, and also after Bolton turned against his former boss.
