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The Secret Service Wants 80,000 People to Apply for Jobs by Next Year, and It’s Paying $90 Million in Ads to Get Them

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The U.S. Secret Service is mounting an unusually aggressive hiring push, aiming to draw 80,000 job applicants by next year with a $90 million advertising campaign behind it.

The agency has never spent anywhere near this much to hire, and it handed the job to a firm that’s never won a federal contract before.

The goal is 4,000 new agents in place before the 2028 elections and the LA Olympics.

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