Secret Service Arrests Two in Separate Incidents Outside White House
The Secret Service arrested two people outside the White House on Monday in separate incidents near Lafayette Park.
Video that spread quickly online showed a vehicle that appeared to have run into a barrier, with smoke coming from the engine.
A Crash and a Barricade Jumper
"Just before 10:00 a.m., Secret Service Police and National Guard responded to the north side of Lafayette Park at 16th Street and H Street, NW, where a vehicle crashed onto the sidewalk. The driver was combative with law enforcement, but was quickly placed under arrest," a Secret Service spokesperson said in a statement.
"MPD's Explosive Ordnance Disposal team has been called to sweep the vehicle as a precaution. Subsequently, roads around Lafayette Park have been closed," the statement continued.
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"Around the same time, a second individual jumped a barricade near the northwest corner of Lafayette Park. That individual was also quickly placed under arrest," it added.
The Secret Service briefly moved reporters into the White House briefing room after the incidents. They have since been released. Authorities say both incidents remain under investigation.
Democrats' Target List
The arrests come days after a left-wing group put together an investigative blueprint aimed at President Trump's donors and corporate allies as Democrats prepare to take control of Congress.
The 182-page dossier from the Groundwork Collaborative names companies, executives and political contributors for possible congressional scrutiny reaching well beyond the White House. Its suggested targets include donors to Trump's ballroom, presidential library, inauguration and campaign.
The group is led by former aides to Joe Biden and to Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Its proposals range from Trump's personal finances and crypto ventures to artificial intelligence, housing investors and corporate pricing.
The document names Tesla, Apple, Amazon, Oracle, Trump Media and World Liberty Financial among the businesses it says deserve scrutiny. It also singles out Palantir's Alex Karp and Coinbase's Brian Armstrong, and floats hearings with executives from OpenAI, Meta, Google and Microsoft.
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It further proposes examining a reported settlement involving Trump's tax audits, requesting information about the Chicago tower audit and questioning Treasury officials.
A longtime Democratic Senate staffer, who had not seen the dossier, told Fox News Digital that committees already planned to focus on Trump's allies and donors. A Democratic House Judiciary Committee aide downplayed the document when asked about reports that committees had received it.
"Economic Accountability" or Retaliation?
Bharat Ramamurti, a former deputy director of the National Economic Council, worked directly with Groundwork on the dossier. He told Fox News Digital the agenda is about examining corporate decisions that affect household budgets, arguing that corporations prospered while families faced higher prices and poor service.
Ramamurti said oversight should identify what corporations are doing, who is making the decisions and how lawmakers might respond. That framing casts the effort as economic accountability, but the donor-focused recommendations raise questions about political retaliation, since investigating business practices and targeting people for supporting a president are very different goals.
The recommendations come from an outside group, not from any committee's official schedule. But for Republicans, the sheer reach of the list is an early warning of how Democrats could use their new subpoena power against businesses that backed Trump. Companies that supported Trump or worked with his administration could soon find themselves answering document demands or sitting before congressional hearings.