2026-04-29T09:00:50.953Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：杰里米·赫布、杰米·甘格尔、惠特尼·怀尔德、乔希·坎贝尔、贝齐·克莱因
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发布于2026年4月29日，美国东部时间早上5:00
汤姆·布伦纳/美联社
2026年4月25日，在华盛顿特区，特勤局特工应对白宫记者协会晚宴上的未遂袭击事件。
总统唐纳德·特朗普、代理司法部长以及其他高级政府官员均公开表示，当一名枪手试图闯入白宫记者协会晚宴现场时，特勤局的应对符合既定预案。
但在幕后，周六晚间发生在华盛顿希尔顿酒店的这起事件——枪手冲过安检点后摔倒并被执法人员制服——重新引发了人们对特勤局长期存在的诸多难题的质疑，包括人员短缺、特工压力过大以及职业倦怠。
现任和前任特勤局官员告诉CNN，尽管当局承诺解决这些问题，但人员问题多年来一直困扰着该机构。
“我们的资源有限，只能尽最大努力加以利用，”一名前高级官员对CNN表示。“现实情况是我们不堪重负，该机构一直在疲于奔命。”
执法专家和国会议员向CNN指出了此次事件暴露的安全漏洞，其中包括酒店本身存在的安保挑战，以及针对这场有总统、副总统和绝大多数内阁成员出席的活动，是否应该设置更大范围的安全警戒线或增派现场特工。
“我参加过很多活动——当然也参加过有总统和内阁成员出席的活动——当这么多人聚集在这么大的一个宴会厅时，（安保）严重不足，”纽约州共和党众议员迈克·劳勒周日对CNN记者马努·拉朱说。
“特勤局在遇到枪手时履行了职责，他们成功阻止了对方并将其拘留。但本不该发展到这一步，”劳勒补充道。“从一开始他就不该出现在那个区域附近。”
曾协助筹备年度记者晚宴的前特勤局特工、CNN分析师乔纳森·瓦克罗表示，在2024年宾夕法尼亚州巴特勒市特朗普遇刺未遂事件以及随后的调查曝光特勤局的重大失职后，当时曾有 hiring 和培训更多特工的势头。
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2026年4月28日，在英国国王查尔斯三世和卡米拉王后到访前夕，一名美国特勤局特工在白宫站岗。
但瓦克罗称，特朗普政府却将培训重点放在了为移民和海关执法局的驱逐行动培训新特工上，导致联邦执法培训中心出现了人员积压。
“行动的最佳时机是本届政府初期，当时巴特勒事件后形成了势头，两党都提出了相关建议，”瓦克罗说。“当时有一些预算支持，可以推动招聘行动并让这些人员通过培训流程。但后来重点转向了移民和海关执法局。”
自周六的枪击事件发生以来，包括代理司法部长托德·布兰奇和特勤局局长肖恩·柯伦在内的特朗普政府高级执法官员都驳斥了有关可能存在安保疏漏的担忧。
“这是一场巨大的安保成功案例，”布兰奇周日对CNN记者达纳·巴什说。“根据我们从监控录像和现场目击者了解到的情况，这名男子几乎没能越过警戒线，他立刻就被制服了。”
柯伦周一开始向国会通报这起事件，他在国会山对记者表示，他对该机构“非常有信心”。“我的特工们表现出色，”他说。
当被问及为何安全警戒线没有向外延伸更远时，他表示：“这背后有原因，但我不会透露。这属于机密信息。我不想解释我们为何如此部署，但确实有原因。”
一名熟悉特勤局行动的消息人士称，扩大安全警戒线需要更多的人手，这对本已不堪重负的该机构来说是额外的挑战。
尽管高级执法官员表示安保系统按预案运行，但人们仍有疑问：为何在枪手抵达安检点之前，没有人上前拦截？
另一位熟悉特勤局程序的消息人士对宴会厅楼层入口处无人值守的可能性表示担忧。
“没有保护对象受到伤害，所以这算是一件好事，”该消息人士说。“有没有可以改进的地方？当然有。”
“我的家人希望我辞职”
周六的未遂刺杀事件是特勤局再度受到审查的最新一起事件。该机构负责保护总统、副总统及其家人、前总统、总统候选人，以及美国境内的其他政要，包括白宫官员和外国领导人。
多年来，消息人士一直对“用更少的资源做更多的事”表达强烈不满。消息人士称，大量特工和官员退休或跳槽到其他执法机构，给特勤局的保护行动带来了沉重压力。
“巴特勒事件后我们被骂惨了，”另一位参与保护行动的消息人士谈到2024年宾夕法尼亚州特朗普遇刺未遂事件时说，“但我们没有看到人员有真正显著的增加来协助开展工作。”
安娜·莫尼梅克/盖蒂图片社
2024年7月13日，在宾夕法尼亚州巴特勒市的一场竞选集会上，一名枪手开火后，特勤局成员迅速将唐纳德·特朗普护送至车内。
消息人士还称，现任特勤局特工对该机构需要保护的特朗普家族成员和工作人员数量之多感到不满。此外，该机构还负责应对包括总统和副总统在内的重点保护对象“不稳定且不断变化的”行程安排，消息人士表示。
由于威胁数量增加，以及特朗普会出席UFC赛事等大量人群聚集的活动，他的安保行动也需要更大的部署范围。
“我热爱这份工作，但我的家人希望我辞职，”一位消息人士说，他承认负责保护特朗普和副总统JD·万斯的工作需求已经对家庭生活造成了影响。
延误与加班费上限
特勤局计划在2028年前招聘4000名新员工，以缓解特工的负担。但这一计划已由一位消息人士向CNN证实，并于今年1月由《华盛顿邮报》率先报道，目前仍停留在“理想状态”，难以达成招聘目标并培训如此多的新特工。
CNN在2024年的报道显示，特勤局约有8100名员工，其中包括3800名特勤特工和1500名制服部门官员。
查利·特里巴勒/法新社/盖蒂图片社
2025年7月13日，在新泽西州东卢瑟福的大都会人寿体育场举行的2025年国际足联俱乐部世界杯决赛前夕，一名美国特勤局狙击手站岗。唐纳德·特朗普总统出席了比赛。
特勤局发言人表示，总统保护部门“不存在人员短缺”问题。
“白宫记者晚宴的安保计划和分层保护模型成功拦截了枪手构成的威胁，”该发言人说。
柯伦在本月早些时候的国会证词中表示，该机构的目标是在2027财年末前增加近2000名执法人员。他说，总统的预算申请中包含了为超过850个职位增加拨款的内容。
柯伦表示，过去两年该机构的行动需求急剧增加，2025财年的保护访问次数比2023年增加了37%，金属探测器安检次数更是增加了一倍多。
此外，据执法消息人士透露，特勤局负责部分安保任务的特工被告知，他们可能需要每周加班超过20小时。
尽管特工们通常会获得加班报酬，但消息人士称，美国政府的薪资上限往往导致部分加班报酬要到次年才能发放到位。由于目前国土安全部陷入停摆，许多特工仍未收到2025年累计的加班工资。
据一位高级政府官员透露，根据“大美法案”，特勤局和其他国土安全部部门的宣誓执法官员在停摆期间仍能领取正常工资，此次停摆已经持续了两个多月。其他所有机构员工目前都通过总统的行政命令领取工资，特勤局发言人表示。
一位前高级官员表示，部分特工有望在年中达到更高的加班费上限，之后将不再获得额外加班报酬——但由于即将到来的国家特殊安全事件不允许特工休假，他们今年剩余时间仍需加班，其中包括世界杯和美国建国250周年庆祝活动。
安保一座 sprawling 酒店
周六，嫌疑人科尔·托马斯·艾伦在通往宴会厅的楼梯前被拦下，当时特朗普、万斯、内阁成员、国会议员以及顶级记者和编辑都聚集在华盛顿希尔顿酒店宽敞的宴会厅内。
艾伦被指控企图刺杀总统，他当时是华盛顿希尔顿酒店的住客，这意味着他在晚宴开始前就已经进入了酒店。
消息人士指出，由于宴会厅属于大型酒店的一部分，要在不侵犯客人权利的前提下彻底清查酒店客房几乎是不可能的。
消息人士补充道，特勤局不太可能拥有搜查客房的法律依据，即便拥有，确保客房在搜查后仍保持安全也颇具挑战。
汤姆·布伦纳/美联社
2026年4月25日，白宫记者晚宴枪击事件发生后，特勤局特工在白宫北草坪巡逻。
一位执法消息人士称，联邦调查局正在调取过去几天的酒店监控录像以及周边街道的录像，寻找嫌疑人的内部和外部影像，包括调查他是否在晚宴前步行前往安检点的路线。
在起诉文件中，调查人员表示，特工们听到艾伦冲过安检点时传来一声响亮的枪声。当局称，一名特勤局警官的防弹衣被击中。
根据法庭文件，被击中的警官向艾伦开了多枪，嫌疑人“摔倒在地并受了轻伤”，但并未中弹。
华盛顿特区联邦检察官让妮娜·皮罗表示，艾伦除了“膝盖上有擦伤”外没有受伤。目前尚不清楚这名警官是否被艾伦射出的子弹击中。
在宴会厅内，保护总统和副总统的特勤局特工迅速冲上舞台。根据事件视频，万斯首先被带离，随后是总统。
尽管外界此后一直在质疑总统的撤离流程，但CNN周日报道称，这一流程似乎符合特勤局的程序，其中包括一些可能不为人所见的措施。
‘Stretched thin’: Secret Service faces renewed scrutiny after White House Correspondents’ Dinner attack
2026-04-29T09:00:50.953Z / CNN
By Jeremy Herb, Jamie Gangel, Whitney Wild, Josh Campbell, Betsy Klein
3 hr ago
PUBLISHED Apr 29, 2026, 5:00 AM ET
Secret service agents respond to the attempted attack at the White House Correspondents Dinner, in Washington, DC, on April 25, 2026.
Tom Brenner/AP
President Donald Trump, the acting attorney general and other top administration officials all publicly say the Secret Service responded as intended when a gunman tried to force his way into the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.
But behind the scenes, the incident at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night — in which the gunman sprinted through a security checkpoint before he fell and was subdued by law enforcement — has renewed questions about the long-simmering challenges facing the Secret Service, including staffing shortages, strain on agents and burnout.
Current and former Secret Service officials tell CNN personnel issues have plagued the agency for years, despite promises to address the problems.
“We have limited resources, and we use them as best we can,” one high-ranking former official told CNN. “The reality is we are stretched thin, and the agency is constantly playing catch up.”
Law enforcement experts and lawmakers raised concerns to CNN about vulnerabilities that the incident exposed. They included the security challenges of the hotel itself, as well as whether there should have been a larger security perimeter or additional agents on site for an event where the president, vice president and most of the Cabinet were all gathered.
“Having attended a lot of events — and certainly having attended events with the president and Cabinet — (security was) woefully insufficient when you’re talking about that many people getting into a room of that size,” Rep. Mike Lawler, a New York Republican, told CNN’s Manu Raju on Sunday.
“And the Secret Service did their job when they encountered him, and they were able to stop him and detain him. But it shouldn’t even have come to that,” Lawler added. “He shouldn’t have been anywhere in that vicinity to begin with.”
After the 2024 attempted assassination of Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania — and subsequent probes that exposed significant Secret Service failures — there was momentum to hire and train more agents, said Jonathan Wackrow, a former Secret Service agent and CNN analyst who has helped preparations for the annual dinner.
A US Secret Service agent stands guard at the White House, on April 28, 2026, ahead of the arrival of Britain’s King Charles and Queen Camilla.
Nathan Howard/Reuters
But instead, the Trump administration focused on training new agents for Immigration and Customs Enforcement for its deportation push, creating a logjam at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Wackrow said.
“The moment to do it was at the very beginning of this administration, when you had the momentum out of Butler, out of the bipartisan recommendations,” Wackrow said. “You had some budgetary support to push through a hiring campaign and get those people through the pipeline. But then the focus was on ICE.”
Since Saturday’s shooting, top Trump law enforcement officials, including acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Secret Service Director Sean Curran, have dismissed concerns about possible security lapses.
“It was a massive security success story,” Blanche told CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday. “This man, from what we know from video surveillance and from witnesses who were there, barely got past the perimeter. He was immediately subdued.”
Curran, who began briefing Congress on Monday about the episode, told reporters on Capitol Hill he was “very confident” in the agency. “My agents did a great job,” he said.
Asked why the security perimeter wasn’t farther out, he said, “There’s a reason, but I’m not going to get into that. It’s classified. I don’t want to get in to why we do that, but there’s a reason.”
Pushing the security perimeter farther out would have required more staffing, one source familiar with Secret Service operations said, presenting an additional challenge for an agency that was already stretched thin.
While senior law enforcement officials say that the system worked as intended, there are questions about why there was no one to confront the shooter before he reached the security checkpoint.
Another source familiar with Secret Service procedures expressed concerns about the possibility that no one was assigned at the floor entry point to the ballroom area.
“No protectees were harmed, so count that in the win column,” the source said. “Are there things you can do better? Absolutely.”
‘My family wants me to quit’
Saturday’s assassination attempt is the latest episode drawing scrutiny of the Secret Service, an agency tasked with protecting the president and vice president, their families, former presidents, presidential candidates, as well as others dignitaries, including White House officials and foreign leaders on US soil.
For several years, sources have expressed intense frustration over having to do more with fewer resources. And sources say the departure of numerous agents and officers who have either retired or sought law enforcement work at other agencies has placed a significant strain on the Secret Service’s protective operations.
“We were crucified after Butler,” said another source involved in protective operations, referring to the 2024 attempted assassination of Trump in Pennsylvania, “yet saw no real significant increase in personnel to help do the job.”
Members of the Secret Service rush Donald Trump into a car after a gunman opened fire during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024.
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Sources also say that current Secret Service agents bristle at the sheer number of Trump family members and staff the already stretched agency is charged with protecting. In addition, the agency is responsible for covering the “erratic” and ever-changing travel schedules of top protectees including the president and vice president, the sources said.
Trump also requires a large footprint because of the increased number of threats, as well as his attendance at events that draw large crowds, such as UFC fights.
“I love the job, but my family wants me to quit,” said one source, who acknowledged that the demands of covering Trump and Vice President JD Vance have caused problems at home.
Delays and caps on overtime pay
The Secret Service is seeking to hire 4,000 new employees by 2028 to ease the burden on agents. But that effort, which was confirmed by a source to CNN and first reported by the Washington Post in January, remains “aspirational” in reaching those numbers and getting that many new agents trained.
CNN reported in 2024 that the Secret Service had approximately 8,100 employees, including 3,800 special agents and 1,500 uniformed division officers.
A US Secret Service sniper stands guard ahead of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 final football match at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on July 13, 2025. President Donald Trump attended the game.
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A Secret Service spokesman said there were “no staffing shortages” to the agency’s Presidential Protective Division.
“The security plan and layered protective model for the White House Correspondents Dinner was effective in interdicting the threat posed by the gunman,” the spokesman said.
Curran said in congressional testimony earlier this month that the agency’s goal was to increase staffing by nearly 2,000 law enforcement personnel by the end of fiscal year 2027. The president’s budget request included increased funding for more than 850 positions, he said.
Curran said that the agency’s operational demands have risen sharply in the last two years, including 37% more protective visits in fiscal year 2025 compared to 2023, and more than double the number of magnetometer screenings.
In addition, agents on some of the security details operated by the Secret Service have been told they may be required to work more than 20 hours of overtime per week, according to law enforcement sources.
While agents generally get paid extra for overtime, sources said, US government pay caps can often result in some overtime pay not arriving in their bank accounts until the following year. Due to the current shutdown involving the Department of Homeland Security, many agents have still not received overtime pay accrued in 2025.
Sworn law enforcement officers for the Secret Service and other DHS agencies are still receiving their regular paychecks during the shutdown — which has dragged on for more than two months now — through the “Big Beautiful Bill,” according to a senior administration official. All other agency employees are currently being paid through the president’s executive order, the Secret Service spokesman said.
One former senior official said that some agents are on pace to reach a higher cap that cuts off additional overtime pay halfway through the year — and they will still have to keep working overtime for the rest of the year because there are National Special Security Events (NSSE) upcoming that will not allow agents to take leave, including the World Cup and celebrations for America’s 250th birthday.
Securing a sprawling hotel
On Saturday, the suspected gunman, Cole Tomas Allen, was stopped before reaching a flight of stairs leading to the ballroom where Trump, Vance, Cabinet members, lawmakers and top reporters and editors were all packed into the Washington Hilton’s cavernous ballroom.
Allen, who was charged with attempting to assassinate the president, was a guest at the Washington Hilton, which meant he was already at the hotel before the dinner began.
Sources noted that because the ballroom is part of a large hotel, it’s virtually impossible to completely secure hotel rooms without infringing on the rights of guests.
It’s unlikely the service would have legal standing to search guest rooms, the sources added, and even if they did, ensuring rooms remain secure once they’ve been searched would be challenging.
US Secret Service agents patrol the North Lawn of the White House on April 25, following shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Tom Brenner/AP
A law enforcement source said the FBI is going through hotel video from the last couple of days, as well as surrounding streets, looking for both internal and external video of the suspect, including to see if he walked the route he took to the security checkpoint before the dinner.
In the charging documents, investigators said that agents heard a loud gunshot as Allen ran through the checkpoint. A Secret Service officer was struck in his protective vest, authorities said.
The officer who had been shot fired multiple times at Allen, according to the court filings, and the suspect “fell to the ground and suffered minor injuries” but was not shot.
US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said that Allen was not injured aside from “some kind of scrape on his knee.” It’s still not clear whether the officer was struck by shots fired by Allen.
Inside the ballroom, Secret Service agents protecting the president and vice president swiftly took to the stage. According to video of the incident, Vance was removed first, followed by the president.
While there have been questions since about how the president was evacuated, CNN reported Sunday that the sequence appears to follow the Secret Service procedures, which includes measures that may not be visible.