Trump taps the leader of his personal detail to run the US Secret Service
By Jamie Gangel and Whitney Wild, CNN
Updated: 4:57 PM EST, Thu January 16, 2025
Source: CNN
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to pick his current Secret Service detail leader, Sean Curran, to be the new director of the United States Secret Service, according to multiple sources familiar with the decision.
For the past four years, Curran has led Trump’s detail and is known to have a close, personal relationship with the president-elect, sources said.
Several sources, however, also raised significant concerns that Curran lacks the managerial experience to run an agency as large and complex as the Secret Service. On Trump’s detail, Curran supervised about 85 people. He has never managed the kind of budget or operations of the Secret Service.
Further, multiple sources point out that Curran has never held a position at the agency’s headquarters and is not a member of the Senior Executive Service, which comprises the highest ranks in the service.