The Secret Service is investigating a “white, powdery substance” discovered in a “work area' of the White House, a Secret Service official says.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a “small amount” of a “white, powdery substance” discovered in a “work area in the West Wing” on Sunday, a Secret Service official said.from the Washington, D.C., fire department — led to a brief evacuation inside the White House Sunday night.
The Secret Service is testing the substance, which they determined was"non-hazardous," and said in a statement they are investigating the matter.“On Sunday evening, the White House complex went into a precautionary closure as officers from the Secret Service Uniformed Division investigated an unknown item found inside a work area," said Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Secret Service.
President Joe Biden was not at the White House at the time the substance was discovered; he left for Camp David on Friday, returning to Washington on Tuesday morning.Monica Alba is a White House correspondent for NBC News.
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