5 highlights from contentious House hearing with Secret Service Dir. over Trump assassination attempt: 'DEI horror story'
'I am completely disgusted by your performance today'
'You need to resign'
In a rare instance of bipartisan agreement, both Democrats and Republicans on the committee criticized Cheatle and called for her resignation.
"I just don't think this is partisan," Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., told the director during the hearing. "If you have an assassination attempt on a president, a former president or a candidate, you need to resign."
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., also took Cheatle to task for her 60-day timetable of conducting an investigation into the assassination attempt, which she described as "unacceptable."
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Following Cheatle's testimony, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., joined with Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., to demand that Cheatle step down.
"Today, you failed to provide answers to basic questions regarding that stunning operational failure and to reassure the American people that the Secret Service has learned its lessons and begun to correct its systemic blunders and failures," the two wrote in a letter.
Cheatle asserted during her testimony that she has no intention of resigning.
Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Post. Send news tips to [email protected]
