发布时间：2026年2月20日，美国东部时间下午5:05 / CNN政治新闻
作者：Holmes Lybrand、Jamie Gangel
2小时前
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为特勤局新入职的护要特工配备定制西装的计划即将启动，相关费用将由纳税人承担。
据知情人士和一份公开的合同征集文件显示，美国特勤局（Secret Service）很快将为每位完成护要培训并毕业的特工提供两套定制西装。
两名知情人士向CNN透露，特勤局采购西装的这一举措源于国土安全部部长克里斯蒂·诺姆（Kristi Noem）对现有护要人员着装的不满。她认为他们自行购买的西装款式不佳。
然而，国土安全部发言人特里西娅·麦克劳克林（Tricia McLaughlin）否认了这一说法，她对CNN表示：“这与形象无关”，而是旨在解决“刚开始职业生涯的男女特工”面临的着装不公问题。
“这是为了纠正非制服部门（警官）需要自费购买制服的不平等现象，”她补充道，指出特勤局为穿防护服和深色警式服装的制服部门提供服装，而护要部门的特工却必须自行购买西装。
一名知情人士透露，国土安全部领导层认为，为特工提供西装有助于吸引人才，同时承担这一经济负担——这也是其动机之一。
该人士还表示，特勤局必须在现有预算中为西装采购项目找到资金。
一位前高级执法官员表示，这在过去从未发生过：以前的便衣特勤局特工不仅无法报销西装费用，更别说是免费获得政府提供的西装。一些机构老员工对这一举措感到惊讶。
“特勤局面临着诸多资源挑战，这看起来是一项奇怪的开支，”前特勤局特工、CNN撰稿人乔恩·瓦克罗（Jon Wackrow）评论道。
据特勤局官员介绍，新采购的西装仅提供给新入职的护要培训毕业生。这些特工的年薪（含福利）通常在7万至9万美元之间。
根据上周发布的一份为期5年的西装采购合同公开征集文件，新培训后分配至护要部门的特工将获得两套美国本土生产的海军蓝定制西装，合同还要求“在夹克内侧绣上姓名”。
当前，国土安全部正陷入部分政府停摆的僵局，共和党和民主党就可能的移民执法改革进行谈判，而这些改革可能成为资助该部门的协议一部分。目前尚不清楚在政府停摆期间，西装采购计划能否继续推进。
特勤局特工被视为关键岗位人员，在停摆期间仍在无薪工作。
Exclusive: Secret Service will offer tailored suits to new protective detail agents
PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2026, 5:05 PM ET / CNN Politics
By Holmes Lybrand, Jamie Gangel
2 hr ago
US Secret Service agents watch as President Donald Trump boards Marine One at the White House on November 14, 2025.
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New Secret Service protective detail agents are about to get a wardrobe upgrade, courtesy of taxpayers.
The Secret Service will soon offer each agent who graduates from protective detail training two tailored suits, according to sources familiar with the matter and a public contract solicitation.
The initiative to have the Secret Service purchase suits happened because Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem disliked how a protective detail was dressed in the suits they bought for themselves, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin denied that account, telling CNN, “This does not have to do with optics” but aims to fix inequities for the “men and woman who are just starting their career.”
“This is to fix the inequity that non-uniformed (officers) have to pay for their uniform,” she added, noting that while the Secret Service supplies clothing to the uniformed division — who dress in protective vests and dark, police-style clothing — agents in protective details have to purchase their own suits.
One of the sources echoed that leadership at DHS believes supplying suits for agents could work as an incentive to help with recruiting, bearing the cost of what can be a financial burden, the source said.
The source added that the Secret Service had to find funding for the suits inside its current budget.
A former senior law enforcement official said this had never been done before for plainclothes Secret Service agents, who in the past couldn’t request reimbursement for suits — let alone receive them for free from the government. And some agency veterans are surprised by the move.
“With all the resource challenges the Secret Service has, this seems like an odd expenditure,” former Secret Service agent and CNN contributor Jon Wackrow said.
The new suits will only be supplied to new graduates from protective detail training. Such agents typically make between $70,000 and $90,000 per year, including benefits, according to a Secret Service official.
Newly trained agents assigned to protective details will be supplied with two, navy-blue tailored suits made entirely in the US, according to a public solicitation for a 5-year contract for the suits published last week. The contract also calls for “name embroidery on inside of jacket.”
DHS is currently ensnared in a partial government shutdown, as Republicans and Democrats negotiate over potential immigration enforcement reforms that could be part of an agreement to fund the department. It isn’t clear if the solicitation for suits can move forward while the shutdown is underway.
Secret Service agents are considered essential and are currently working without pay during the shutdown.
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