Federal marshals are protecting Education Secretary Betsy DeVos at a cost to her agency of nearly $8 million over nearly eight months, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. Marshals will continue providing security for the education secretary for the next four years, or until either agency decides to terminate the arrangement, under an agreement signed last week. While the department is spending the additional money on DeVos’s security, members of the in-house security team that guarded previous secretaries remain on the payroll. The Marshals Service is hiring nearly two dozen people to guard her, according to a person briefed on the security arrangements, who was not authorized to speak publicly.

Source: Washington Post April 07, 2017 15:45 UTC