The young child managed to slip through fencing outside the White House and was intercepted Wednesday by an armed US Secret Service agent.

The video shows an armed guard carrying a child from the facility. One agent hands the child over to another guard in the video, as they can hear people discuss the case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt4yqisgvoq

“After 6:30pm on Wednesday, US Secret Service uniformed department officials watched the child slipped through the Northern White House fence. Officers quickly reunited the child with their parents.” (Related: Trump cancels security clearances for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, and more.)

After 6:30pm on Wednesday, officers from the US Secret Service uniformed department watched the child slip through the Northern White House fence. The officer immediately reunited the child with his parents. https://t.co/meeejxvlsq

– Anthony Guglielmi (@secretsvcspox) March 26, 2025

The spokesman is also I said NBC 4 Washington said the incident occurred on North Lawn about an hour after President Donald Trump announced plans for tariffs on imports of the automotive industry from the oval office. The Secret Service has sent a statement released by Gullielmi to its daily callers in response to requests for comment.

This is not the first time a child has broken White House security fencing. According to NBC 4, the toddler was arrested for security after slipping through metal fencing on North Loan in April 2023 and returned his parents.

The Secret Service was founded in 1865 to crack down on counterfeit American currencies. According to on the agency’s website. At the time, it was estimated that nearly a third of all domestic currency was counterfeited towards the end of the Civil War. The service protected the president full time after anarchists assassinated President William McKinley in 1901.