President Donald Trump’s Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has canceled an apartment lease used by agents on Ashley Biden’s Secret Service protection.
As reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer, DOGE said it canceled a lease for a 1,000 square foot apartment in Philadelphia.
However, the Secret Service is pushing back against the news, claiming the agency is unaware of any changes.
The apartment is in the block where former President Joe Biden’s daughter lives.
Secret Service said it is unaware of changes to the lease, however.
In a statement, agency spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said:
“This Secret Service work site is essential to our operations and necessary to effectuate our protective functions.”
All serving presidents, their spouses, and their children under 16 are entitled to Secret Service protection, but security can be extended.
Before he left office, former President Biden extended the protective detail for his daughter until July, an official told the Inquirer.
The Secret Service said DOGE did not necessarily compromise her safety by sharing the lease information.
However, the agency argues that the lease agreement remains “essential” for Ashley Biden’s protection.
“Disclosing the address of a Secret Service work site does not necessarily compromise security for a protectee,” Guglielmi said.
“We are very cognizant of these possibilities and take all of it into consideration when developing our protective posture,” he added.
The DOGE website lists over 700 canceled leases across different government agencies.
Three of those leases are listed in Delaware, in Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach, where Joe Biden owns two homes.
The Delaware leases collectively add up to $1 million a year.
The Philadelphia apartment for Ashley Biden’s security detail cost taxpayers $36,348 every year.
The General Services Administration, which manages government real estate holdings and leases, said the Philadelphia and Wilmington leases are intact.
“None of the leases cited were flagged by GSA for termination,” GSA spokesperson Will Powell said.
“Both the Philadelphia and Wilmington leases are intact until the end of their term.”
Ashley Biden, 43, is the only child of Joe Biden and Jill Biden.
Her diary was infamously stolen in 2020, leading to the prosecution of two individuals who sold it to a conservative news outlet, Project Veritas.
The Justice Department in February said it would not bring charges against Project Veritas, which declined to publish the diary.
In the notebook, Ashley Biden described her troubles with sex and drugs.
She notably mentioned taking “showers with dad” as a child.
In the diary, she links her relationship with her dad as a child to her problems wth sex and drugs as an adult.
She wrote that the showers were “probably not appropriate.”
Ashley Biden’s diary was found among her abandoned belongings in a half-way house after she left a drug rehabilitation clinic.
“I have always been boy crazy,” Ashley Biden wrote in the diary.
“Hyper-sexualized @ a young age.
“What is this due to?
“Was I molested? I think so – I can’t remember specifics, but I do remember trauma.”
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