The US Secret Service officer who took a bullet to his vest while shielding President Donald Trump at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Dinner is among more than 100,000 federal workers set to miss their next paycheque, as the federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown reached 72 days on Monday, the longest partial government closure in US history.
House Speaker Mike Johnson torpedoed a bipartisan Senate bill that would reopen most of DHS, telling reporters on Monday that the measure carried 'problematic' language and that Republicans would draft a 'modified' version. The reversal landed about 24 hours after Saturday's assassination attempt at the Washington Hilton wounded a federal agent.
