In a Monday press conference discussing the incident, the acting director of the Secret Service called for "some hard conversations with Congress."
"If I was making decisions, I would push them to eliminate all their investigations, aside from investigating threats toward people under Secret Service protection."
Because the men and women of the Secret Service right now, we are redlining them."
Of the Department of Homeland Security's $64.81 billion total budget, the Secret Service in 2024 was allotted $3.27 billion — increasing less than $400,000 since 2022.
Secret Service agents "are rising to this moment," Rowe said, but "We have to have it every day.
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