introduced the bipartisan Providing Real Oversight and Transparency to Effectively Counter Threats (PROTECT) Act to ensure all future United States Secret Service (USSS) Directors are Senate confirmed and subject to a single, 10-year term.
Support legislation to make the U.S. Secret Service Director a Senate-confirmed position with a single 10-year term.
Occurrences
Evidence
Republican senators met with Secret Service Director Sean Curran about a $1 billion security plan. The request focused on White House hardening, a visitor screening facility, and training for Secret Service agents.
The Senate parliamentarian ruled that the $1 billion White House security proposal could not be included in the GOP reconciliation bill, blocking the fast-track path for that funding package.
More than $350 million from accounts meant for Secret Service hiring and training was quietly redirected to the White House ballroom project, after Congress rejected a separate $1 billion request.
Assessments
As of July 1, 2026, the U.S. Secret Service Director remains appointed by the president, serves at the president's pleasure, and is not a Senate-confirmed position with a single 10-year term. The supplied evidence concerns Secret Service funding and security proposals, not the promised structural reform, and I found no basis to credit Cortez Masto with materially advancing an enacted version of this change. The promised outcome has therefore not been delivered.
As of June 20, 2026, the promised structural change has not been enacted. The U.S. Secret Service director remains a presidential appointee who serves at the president's pleasure rather than a Senate-confirmed official with a fixed single 10-year term; Kimberly Cheatle was appointed in 2022 and Sean Curran was appointed on January 22, 2025 under that unchanged system. I found no clear evidence that Catherine Cortez Masto sponsored or materially advanced legislation that actually delivered this reform, so there is not enough basis for delivered or partial credit.