June 3, 2025 – Ron Rowe is out at Secret Service; Many agents now hope for an end to DEI policies

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Former Acting Secret Service Director Ron Rowe said he planned to resign and retire in February but has remained on the payroll as a “senior adviser” for more than four months into the Trump administration, collecting paid leave.

Rowe’s last day was Friday, according to a knowledgeable Secret Service source, and many agents are hoping his departure will sweep out the DEI policies and lowering of standards that led to two assassination attempts against now-President Trump. After years of DEI hiring priorities, their impact is still plaguing the agency as demonstrated by the recent fistfight between two Uniformed Division officers in front of former President Obama’s D.C. residence late last month, which @RCPolitics first reported.

At least one of the big DEI priorities of former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s has now ended. With Trump’s executive order barring all DEI policies across the federal government, which placed hundreds of DEI officials on paid leave, Secret Service Director Sean Curran is no longer supporting the national 30X30 pledge to hire at least 30% women agents and officers by the year 2030, according to sources familiar with Secret Service policies. This was a major Cheatle priority, and sources say she aggressively pursued it and had achieved 24% women agents and officers with the Secret Service by the time of her forced resignation after the J13 assassination attempt last year.

There are plenty of women agents and officers who adhere to the highest Secret Service standards, but others were not hired solely on merit and at times were pushed through the process even if they didn’t pass all the training tests and requirements.

Within the hour, I’ll report in a separate post about multiple DEI conferences around the country the Secret Service was paying for its agents and employees to attend at the HEIGHT of the frenetic campaign last year while Rowe was complaining that the agency didn’t have enough taxpayer funds to keep manpower levels up.