The SS’s core mission isn’t protecting the president. It wasn’t until 1901 that they added protection to their duties. They have been tasked with financial crim

The SS’s core mission isn’t protecting the president. It wasn’t until 1901 that they added protection to their duties. They have been tasked with financial crimes since 1865. Creating another agency when the SS is very good at what they do is pointless. Despite occasional missteps (any large org will have problems from time to time,) the SS is one of the best federal law enforcement agencies ever created. To your point of creating another agency so the SS can focus on the president, we could ask the same question why the FBI investigates kidnappings and bank robberies while also doing domestic counter intelligence. It’s possible for agencies to do more than one thing.