Rebecca Zeljko
The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a resolution to establish a bipartisan commission to investigate the July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
HR 1367 which was he led by House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and passed unanimously by the House. The task force was announced after a decision by U.S. Secret Service (USSS) Director Kimberly Cheatle evasive testimony before the House Oversight Committee on Monday, which it sparked bipartisan scandal and her subsequent resignation on Tuesday.
The House voted to adopt the resolution by a vote of 416-0.
“The security failures that allowed the attempted assassination of Donald Trump are shocking,” Johnson and Jeffries said in a joint statement. statement Tuesday. “The task force will be authorized to issue subpoenas and will move quickly to establish the facts, ensure accountability and ensure that such failures never happen again.”
The task force will include seven Republicans and six Democrats “in response to bipartisan demands for responses,” according to a joint statement by Johnson and Jeffries.
The resolution was also led by Republican Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania, who stood in the front row at Trump’s rally in Butler CountyPennsylvania, when 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks shot and wounded the former president, killing attendee Corey Comperatore and wounding James Copenhaver and David Dutch, both of whom were in stable as of Monday.
Crooks took aim at the Republican candidate from a rooftop just 130 yards from the stage. bandit It was supposedly mottled by witnesses and reported by the USSS almost an hour before Trump took the stage.
‘Go back to guarding Doritos’: GOP official lashes out at Secret Service director for ‘disgraceful’ responses photo:twitter.com/wdgXC82cbC
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Cheat resigned a day after her testimony Monday, saying she took “full responsibility for the security breach,” according to an email gained via The Associated Press. Johnson said Cheatle’s resignation was “long overdue” but that there still “may be others in the line of power” who are also guilty.
“She should have done it at least a week ago,” Johnson said. he said at a news conference Tuesday. “Now we have to pick up the pieces. We have to rebuild the faith and trust of the American people in the Secret Service as an agency.”
The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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Rebecca Zeljko is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Mike Johnson” by Mike Johnson. Photo “Hakeem Jeffries” by Congressman Hakeem Jeffries.
