Agent Shot at Correspondents' Dinner: GovBrief #450

A Secret Service agent took a bullet for the president at the Washington Hilton tonight.

Forty-five years ago, agent Tim McCarthy was shot defending President Reagan on the sidewalk in front of the same hotel. Tonight at a checkpoint outside the ballroom, an agent took a shotgun round in the vest as Trump was rushed off the stage and guests dove under tables. The gunman never made it inside, and police have not yet described his motive.

Trump returned to the White House within the hour. From the briefing room podium, he pitched the new ballroom, telling reporters the Secret Service and the military are “demanding” it. None of that mattered tonight. The agent went home.

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Well, I wanna find out — you know, it’s not dropped What I wanna look at is, how can a building that I could have done for $25 million cost $4 billion? That’s a big thing, and he was in charge.

Donald Trump speaking to reporters in Florida on April 25, 2026. about the government investigating Fed Chair Jerome Powell