The 405-0 House vote follows a second Trump assassination attempt.
USSS 'exemplary' during Trump assassination attempt, friend saysunanimously on Friday approved a bill that would require the Secret Service to apply equal standards of protection to major presidential candidates and sitting presidents, a move that comes in the wake of two assassination attempts on former President Trump.
FILE - Ronald Rowe Jr., the acting director of the Secret Service, speaks during a news conference by law enforcement officials, Sept. 16, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla.It now heads to the Senate where its fate is uncertain. The Senate would likely not be able to take it up until after the 2024 election.
In addition to counter assault, counter surveillance, counter sniper, protective intelligence and drone teams for Trump, an agency official says the security plan at Mar-a-Lago now includes emergency tactical response functions and a protective platoon from Palm Beach County. "Every year since 2017, Congress has added more money to the Secret Service's budget than they even requested in their budget," Scalise said Wednesday. "And so, it is not an issue of money. What they are doing with the money we've had a lot of serious questions about before the first assassination attempt."
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