Senators from both parties pressed the Secret Service on Tuesday about how the agency will improve after the systemic failures and lack of transparency that enabled the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
At a sometimes tense joint hearing before the Judiciary Committee and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, senators aired concerns about why the Secret Service decided not to halt the July 13 rally at Butler, Pa., and why no agency officials have been held accountable other than former director Kimberly Cheatle, who resigned last week.
Senators said they might address the failure through additional resources to assist agents in their work, legislation to make the position of Secret Service director subject to Senate confirmation, or a congressional review of the material from the internal investigations, such as communications on that day and interviews after the fact.
