Lawmakers are scrambling to ensure that the U.S. Secret Service has enough money and resources to keep the nation’s presidential candidates safe amid repeated threats of political violence. But it's unclear how much they can do with only weeks before the election, or if additional dollars for the agency would make an immediate difference.
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“We have a responsibility here in Congress to get down to the bottom of this to figure out why these things are happening and what we can do about it,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday. “This is not a partisan issue. We have both parties working on it.” Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, the Democratic chairman of the spending subcommittee that oversees the Secret Service, said Congress wants to make sure that if it is spending new dollars, “it’s going to help the situation between now and the inauguration.”
That could render the GOP House legislation unnecessary, at least for now. But lawmakers have said they want to make sure that Trump is protected after two people have tried to end his life.
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