President Donald Trump has stripped Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection that Joe Biden had quietly extended before he left office.
While the former vice president was entitled to six months of protection after leaving office, Biden signed a directive extending her protection by an additional year, according to CNN.
However, a senior White House official confirmed with The Daily Beast that Trump revoked it.
Trump sent the letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday, effectively ending the arrangement early, according to CNN.
“You are hereby authorized to discontinue any security-related procedures previously authorized by Executive Memorandum, beyond those required by law, for the following individual, effective September 1, 2025: Former Vice President Kamala D. Harris,” Trump wrote in the letter, CNN reports.
The move to end Harris’ protection comes as she prepares to travel to multiple cities on a book tour to promote the release of her memoir about her presidential campaign against Trump.
The book, titled 107 Days, is set to be released on September 23. Harris is slated to head out for the first stop of her tour in New York on September 24.
The Daily Beast contacted the Secret Service and Harris’s office for comment.
It also inquired with Biden’s office over why the former president thought extending her protection was necessary.
Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, had his security detail end in July after six months, as is standard for the spouses of vice presidents.
Since leaving office in January, Harris has kept a relatively low profile as the Trump administration took the reins, but she remains a fierce critic of the president at times.
Last month, the former vice president announced that she would not run for governor of California, ending months of speculation over her next move and fueling questions about her 2028 ambitions.
Harris denied during an interview with Stephen Colbert that she was holding out for a higher office, instead claiming that “for now,” she does not want to return to the system, which she called “broken.”
Trump has revoked several protective details since returning to office, including one for Mike Pompeo, his former Secretary of State, and John Bolton, his former National Security Adviser, who has become a fierce Trump critic.
In March, the president announced he was ending protections for Biden’s two adult children Ashley and Hunter. Trump’s four adult children and their spouses maintained Secret Service protections for a full six months after his first term.
