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...because after being moved over to Homeland Security, it was heaped on with all kinds of other responsibilities other than protecting POTUS:

Protecting former Presidents and their families (the Clinton protective division, for instance, takes 68 agents and technicians)

Protecting the Vice President’s spouses and children

Protecting the Secretary of Homeland Security

Protecting the Secretary of the Treasury

Protecting the United States Trade Representative

Protecting the White House National Security Advisor

Protecting the White House Press Secretary

Protecting other “cabinet level protectees”

Protecting select presidential nominees (e.g., Robert Kennedy, Jr.)

Protecting foreign heads of state

Protecting foreign “dignitaries”

Investigating bank fraud; and analyzing Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and related banking data

Investigating mortgage fraud

Investigating money laundering and illegal tax havens

Investigating credit card fraud

Investigating check fraud

Investigating wire and telecommunications fraud

Investigating child pornography related federal crimes

Investigating identity theft and identity fraud

Investigating unemployment compensation fraud

Providing staffing for the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT)

Investigating ransomware attacks

Investigating cryptocurrency and bitcoin fraud

Investigating gas pump skimming

Investigating business e-mail compromise (BEC) crimes

Investigating network intrusion (NITRO) and Critical Systems Protection (CSP) and responding to critical infrastructure and computer network breaches

Investigating pig butchering

Staffing Digital Evidence Forensic Labs (DEFLs) and providing specialized digital forensics, digital evidence recovery and cell phone tracking for state and local law enforcement

Leading financial crimes task forces

Leading electronic crimes task forces

Leading cyber fraud task forces

Finding and exploiting credit card skimmers

Manning the International Ink Library

Staffing Covid-19 (PPP) fraud task forces

Staffing the Executive Office for Asset Forfeiture, allocating federal seizures of cash and property to different agencies

Staffing FBI-run interagency Joint Terrorism Task Forces and participating in the Task Force Officer program

Staffing the DNI National Counterterrorism Center in both its international and domestic functions

Staffing the FBI Terrorist Screening Center and helping to maintain the domestic terror watchlist

Staffing interagency Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETFs) and the interagency High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program

Providing liaison to over 10,000 private companies, including banking and financial management, airlines, IT and social media companies, as well as academic partners

Staffing and liaising with state and urban fusion centers, homeland security investigations (HSI) field offices, Customs, border patrol, ICE activities, FBI offices and resident agencies, Postal Inspection Service, and military explosive ordnance disposal offices

Assisting with Department of Justice Priority Transnational Organized Crime (PTOC) cases

Providing liaison to over 20,000 state, local, tribal, territorial partners, and federal and state prosecutors

Researching and responding to Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (CUAS); Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS); Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Devices (RCIED); explosive; and chemical/biological/radiological threats

Providing protection for NATO Summits and meetings

Providing protection for the United Nations General Assembly

Providing protection for state funerals

Providing protection for G7/G20 summits and meeting

Providing protection and counter surveillance for domestic-based Olympics (Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, etc.)

Training foreign law enforcement personnel and staffing the Secret Service component of the State Department's International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA)

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/50-secret-service-functions-besides