The secret services suspended six agents after the button. Here are other changes

The secret services inaugurated a series of changes aimed at strengthening its security measures in the aftermath of the assassination attempt in July 2024 against President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania – in particular by sustaining six of his agents because of their response to the crisis.

The deputy director of secret services, Matt Quinn, disclosed the suspensions on Wednesday in an interview with CBS News, and said that the consequences varied from 10 days to 42 days of unpaid leave. In addition, he said that the agents would return to limited roles as a result of the suspension, and said the agency was “laser focused on fixing the deep cause of the problem”.

“The secret services are fully responsible for Butler,” quinn told CBS. “Butler has been an operational failure and we focus today on the guarantee that this is no longer happening.”

The secret services suspended 6 agents responsible for protecting Trump during the assassination attempt in July 2024

Former President Donald Trump is rushed out of stage by secret service agents after being grazed by a bullet during a rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

The secret services confirmed to Fox News that the suspensions entered into force in February and that no agent had been dismissed.

The agency faced a meticulous exam in the aftermath of the ambush, where the 20 -year -old shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks pulled eight balls on a roof during a campaign rally on July 13, 2024. A Trump kick collapsed the balls, and the shooter killed Corey Comperatore, a 50 -year -old firefighter, a father and a husband. An elite of secret services killed crooks.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comments from Fox News Digital.

Bill Gage, who was a special secret service agent for former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Fox News Digital told the assassination attempt had served as a awakening to the agency – producing late changes to the secret services.

More specifically, Gage said that the incident had prompted the secret services to “create new divisions, new units to counter modern threats and has given the agency a real objective”.

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Former President Donald Trump is assisted by secret service staff after shots were rejected at Butler Farm Show in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024. (Reuters / Brendan McDermid)

The former acting director of the secret services, Ronald Rowe, told legislators on a bipartite working group at home investigating the assassination attempt in December 2024 that the immediate changes of the agency included the widening of the use of drones for surveillance purposes, and also incorporating counter-drone technology to mitigate the kinetic attacks from other drones.

Likewise, the agency has also revised its radio communications networks and its interoperability of these networks with the staff of the secret services and agents of the application of local and local laws. The rationalization of these radio communications is a major change, according to Gage, which said that it was sometimes equipped with up to five radios because an integrated system did not exist.

Rowe also told legislators that the agency was trying to strengthen its endowment and had allocated more special agents to Trump’s security details. Rowe said the agency planned to use some of the additional 231 million dollars of funding that Congress approved for secret services in a Stopgap expenditure bill in September 2024 to hire 1,000 new agents and officers in 2025.

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The acting director of the secret services, Ronald Rowe, testifies to an audience in the Senate examining the security failures leading to the attempted assassination against former president Donald Trump, on July 30, 2024 in Washington. (AP photo / Kevin Wolf)

Other potential changes in the work include the construction of a precise replica of the White House, instead of using the replica of the White House of Tyler Perry in his Atlanta cinema studio, as the agents have done historically.

The director of secret services, Sean Curran, said in an interview in April with “My point of view with Lara Trump” of Fox News that the agency coordinates with the White House to build the replica of James J. Rowley Training Center in Laurel, Maryland.

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Pledge called him “inexcusable” that a replica of the White House did not already exist and said that more value had to be placed on the training.

“The service should really focus on training,” said Gage. “There must be an increased state of mind for training, where training is considered just as important as your assigned change.”

Elizabeth Pritchett from Fox News and Alexis McAdams contributed to this report.