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The California Highway Patrol (CHP) has offered to supply extortion for erstwhile Vice President Harris aft President Trump canceled her Secret Service protection, according to caller reporting from the Los Angeles Times, which cited instrumentality enforcement sources.
The Times, successful a study published Friday, said the CHP connection came successful the aftermath of discussions betwixt the offices of California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D).
The CHP declined to supply further accusation erstwhile reached by The Hill.
"Respectfully, the California Highway Patrol does not remark connected information arrangements," said CHP bureau of media relations spokesperson Lt. Matt Gutierrez. The bureau of Newsom, who would request to motion disconnected connected the protection, could not beryllium instantly reached for remark by The Hill. Newsom's bureau declined to supply further remark to The Times.
Harris's extortion was revoked done a missive titled “Memorandum for the Secretary of Homeland Security” dated Thursday. Her protections are acceptable to extremity Sept. 1, according to CNN.
“You are hereby authorized to discontinue immoderate security-related procedures antecedently authorized by Executive Memorandum, beyond those required by law, for the pursuing individual, effectual September 1, 2025: Former Vice President Kamala D. Harris,” reads the letter, a transcript of which was obtained by CNN.
Harris's information protections ran for six months pursuing the extremity of the Biden administration, arsenic is modular for vice presidents; however, erstwhile President Biden extended the deadline for extortion by a twelvemonth earlier leaving office, per CNN. Presidents person beingness Secret Service protection.
Bass denounced Trump's determination to revoke Harris's Secret Service extortion successful a connection to The Hill, saying she volition enactment with Newsom to guarantee Harris's safety.
"This is different enactment of revenge pursuing a agelong database of governmental retaliation successful the signifier of firings, the revoking of information clearances and more," Bass said. "This puts the erstwhile Vice President successful information and I look guardant to moving with the Governor to marque definite Vice President Harris is harmless successful Los Angeles."
