What are the levels of security for ex-presidents, other leaders?

(NewsNation) —A 2nd attempt on erstwhile President Donald Trump’s beingness implicit the play has led to renewed questions astir the level of security governmental leaders are fixed and if it’s enough. 

The FBI is investigating Sunday’s incident that took spot extracurricular Trump's play people successful West Palm Beach, Florida, arsenic an assassination effort — the 2nd 1 faced by the erstwhile president successful caller months.

Trump’s protective item has been higher than immoderate different erstwhile presidents due to the fact that of his precocious visibility and his run to question the White House again, but it’s inactive not arsenic precocious arsenic different leaders. 

Who gets Secret Service protection?  

The Secret Service is authorized to support the sitting president and vice president, their contiguous families, arsenic good arsenic each erstwhile presidents, their spouses and their children nether the property of 16, according to the agency.

While successful office, neither the president nor vice president tin diminution protection, but their spouses and children could.

The Secret Service is besides authorized by instrumentality to support "major statesmanlike and vice statesmanlike candidates and their spouses wrong 120 days of a wide statesmanlike election." 

The bureau has nary accidental arsenic to who qualifies arsenic large candidates. That determination is made and past relayed to the Secret Service by the Homeland Security Department secretary.

Agents besides support visiting heads of state, distinguished overseas visitors and U.S. representatives doing peculiar missions abroad.

The president tin besides delegate the Secret Service to support a idiosyncratic done an enforcement order. 

What's the quality successful security? 

Sitting presidents get a higher level of Secret Service information than erstwhile presidents. 

The Secret Service budgeted much than $2 cardinal annually to support the president and the archetypal household successful 2017, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

The Secret Service's yearly fund was astir $3 cardinal successful the astir caller fiscal year, according to the Office of Management and Data, and astir $1.2 cardinal of that was allocated to the part that oversees extortion for the president, vice president and their families.

While it is unclear what precisely entails those tiers of security, the highest level of information is fixed to the president, vice president and past erstwhile presidents, the bureau states.

Former presidents and their spouses person Secret Service extortion for life, but the information astir erstwhile presidents varies according to menace levels and exposure, with the toughest measures typically being taken successful the contiguous aftermath of their leaving office.

“Everybody gets a antithetic level of security,” NewsNation’s Leland Vittert said. 

This is owed to outgo and interaction connected the public, helium said. 

However, the Secret Service is perpetually assessing menace levels, truthful if they consciousness information needs to level up they volition bash truthful and should beryllium capable to bash truthful without the “political wing” getting involved, helium added. 

In Trump’s case, “the Secret Service was capable to bash what the Secret Service is expected to do,” helium said.

“When you person thing hap wrong conscionable a mates of months of each other, somehow, the systems thin to enactment a small spot better.”

Should Trump person gotten much protection? 

Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said the full play people would person been lined with instrumentality enforcement if Trump were the sitting president, but due to the fact that helium is not, “security is constricted to the areas that the Secret Service deems possible.” 

“I would ideate that the adjacent clip helium comes to the play course, determination volition astir apt beryllium a small much radical astir the perimeter,” Bradshaw said. “But, the Secret Service did precisely what they should person done.”

The Florida play people was partially unopen down for Trump arsenic helium played, but determination are respective areas astir the perimeter of the spot wherever golfers are disposable from the obstruction line. Secret Service agents and officers successful play carts and connected ATVs mostly unafraid the country respective holes up and down Trump. Agents besides usually bring an armored conveyance onto the people to structure Trump rapidly should a menace arise.

A erstwhile Secret Service cause told the BBC helium believes Trump needs much extortion than different erstwhile presidents due to the fact that helium is moving for the White House again.

"We present person to reevaluate," Barry Donadio told the outlet. "Should each these candidates get the aforesaid statesmanlike protective package? I deliberation that's astir apt going to person to beryllium the answer."

In addition, Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., besides said Trump required "maximum protection,” the outlet reported. 

Trump has had a stepped-up information footprint since the assassination effort successful July. When helium is astatine Trump Tower successful New York, parked dump trucks person formed a partition extracurricular the building. At outdoor rallies, helium present speaks from down bulletproof glass.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.