The Secret Service agents protecting Vice President JD Vance are feeling "fed up" with his hasty personal travel requests, according to a new report from MS NOW.
Secret Service agents "groused" when they had to carry out Vance's recent requests for his family, such as joining a military helicopter crew to fly his son to his golf lesson, the report reads.
"That is RIDICULOUS," a person familiar with the golf trip told MS NOW in a message. "Pence and Harris never pulled anything like that."
MS NOW reported that operating a military helicopter costs taxpayers between $16,000 and $24,600 per hour based on 2022 Department of Defense budget estimates. However, it noted that the trip was canceled at the last minute due to severe weather in Washington, D.C.
Still, Secret Service agents pulled in to protect Vance and his family say they are "fed up" with the last-minute requests, three anonymous sources told MS NOW.
"They told MS NOW that prior vice presidents eschewed using such expensive government perks for the convenience of their children's schedules," MS NOW reported. "And agents typically drove children locally in sports utility vehicles."
Those sources added that the previous vice presidents warned the Secret Service days in advance if they had travel plans.
The Vances, by contrast, "change everything," one of the anonymous sources told MS NOW. "They don't stick to their schedules, and that costs sh—tons of taxpayer money."
Hastily arranged trips are "off the record" because they require Secret Service agents to cancel their days off, drop plans, and race to the location where they're needed, according to MS NOW.
"The detail is tired of them not giving notice on things and making everything an OTR," a source familiar with the frustrations of Vance's detail told MS NOW, adding that the vice president "thinks he can still move around like a U.S. Senator."
