Secret Service Reports 40% Jump In Threat Cases This Year

The U.S. Secret Service said there has been a 40% increase in the number investigations it has opened into threats directed at the agency's protectees this year, days before the rescheduled White House Correspondents' Association dinner after the previous event was interrupted by a shooting.

In a briefing with multiple media outlets, Secret Service Director Sean Curran said the agency has initiated more than 10,000 investigations into threats against people the agency has been assigned to protect.

Curran said the threats are "off the charts" and the agency is operating under a "heightened level of threat environment right now."

Aside from a 40% increase in cases, the agency said mental health-related interventions are not 10 times higher than the level they were during the same period in 2025.

The agency attributed the spike to multiple factors, including online threats, foreign threats, lone actors, ideological grievances and mental health-linked cases.

In the briefing, officials mentioned drones as another emerging threat vector.

The rescheduled White House Correspondents' Association dinner is set to take place on Friday night with "significantly enhanced safety measures and new access procedures." The dinner's venue has also been changed after the April attack from the Washington Hilton to the Waldorf Astoria. Secret Service Deputy Director Matthew Quinn told reporters that they are not seeing Friday's event as a "redo of a dinner" but rather as a "presidential site with Cabinet members and other protectees there."