Too many White House officials receive Secret Service protection

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We learned last week that the U.S. Secret Service is completely overstretched by its protective taskings. While most in the media blame the foreign travels of Trump’s children for the service’s issues, I believe they are missing the point.

To start, there is an obvious and exigent need for the service to protect the first family. Those individuals are at heightened risk of kidnapping, and any successful kidnapping would risk paralyzing the president’s decision making.

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