A bipartisan Senate committee report surfaced more revelations about Secret Service failures amid the July 13 assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump. The report comes a day after the Senate passed a bill requiring an equal standard of Secret Service protection for presidents and major party candidates.
The report highlighted the agency’s failure to request a surveillance team for the Butler, Pennsylvania, event. The agency’s antidrone operator was also found to be inexperienced and unable to deploy the system for hours, preventing notice of the shooter’s drone. Two minutes before the gunman fired, Secret Service officials knew he was on the roof. See a summary of the report’s findings here.
The committee also recommended an increase in budget. The report coincided with Congress including $230M in emergency funding for the agency in its latest stopgap bill. Read an overview of the the Secret Service here.
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