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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Croft

Secret Service spending $90M to find new agents ahead of the 2028 presidential election

The U.S. Secret Service is set to spend $90 million on a contract for a major advertising campaign aimed at dramatically scaling up the size of its force.

Overall the federal agency hopes to attract some 80,000 applicants with around half coming from the campaign, according to contract documents seen by Notus. The news outlet says the contract, the cost of which is highlighted on the government’s Sam.gov website, appears to be the largest the service has awarded to an outside company for recruitment.

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