Too High or Too Low. A basic purpose of asking applicants for salary requirements is to use the response as part of the initial screening process.
So, who else do they protect? By law, the Secret Service protects the president and his family, the vice president and her family, the president-elect and his family and the vice president-elect and her family. Former presidents and their spouses also get lifetime protection. A spouse will lose a Secret Service detail if he or she gets remarried.
Secret Service officials would not comment on their candidate protection plans and it's unclear if the agency could have predicted the number of candidates who may yet require protection. Rubio and Cruz would bring the total to six, if none of the other candidates under the agencyâs watch drop out of the race.