Formers can be some boring details. Plenty of odd stuff goes on. Not quite Driving Ms. Daisy, but close.

As someone above posted, this was in the works for a while. It wasn't specifically for the current President, but he will benefit from it, as will W.

The number of people who get USSS protection has been creeping upwards now for the last several administrations. Some of these people would be hard to pick out of a crowd, much less be targets for violence. Usually the Secretary of DHS designates who gets protection based on a request from the WH.

In the grand scheme of government waste, the USSS budget is relatively small. I personally would like to go back to pre 1865 style protection for our elected leaders, but that won't happen.

Be safe.