Ted Cruz, GOP Senators claim Trump shooting protection was 'politically motivated' | LiveNOW FOX

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said the acting U.S. Secret Service director may have acknowledged their failure to secure the roof a shooter was able to take fires at former President Trump from on July 13 was indefensible, but afterward continued with the same stonewalling pattern seen in the Biden administration’s agency.

Cruz spoke after a hearing on the attempted assassination of Trump, saying former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle should have been fired after the failed security detail.

“She should have resigned the day of the shooting. She did not. She should have been fired the day of the shooting. She was not,” Cruz said. “Acting director [Ronald Rowe, Jr.] at least acknowledged that their failure to secure the roof from where the shooter fired was indefensible. That being said, he continued the pattern we have seen from the Biden administration of stonewalling in this hearing.”

The senator continued, taking aim at the Biden administration’s Secret Service.

“Apparently, in the Biden Secret Service, the buck stops nowhere. Nobody has responsibility,” Cruz said.

Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., told reporters Tuesday that it will take more than throwing additional money at the Secret Service in order to get the resources needed to protect a president.

Marshall spoke to reporters after a hearing on the attempted assassination of former President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13.

“I think we've doubled their budget in the last ten years,” Marshall said of the Secret Service. “They have 8,000 agents protecting 33 people that they need to be able to roll up the people that are sitting and doing nothing in those offices.”

He later said the agents are doing important things and he did not mean to be so “cavalier.”

“Obviously, in this situation, President Trump probably needed 4 or 5 times that,” Marshall said. “I would argue that it would be next to impossible to make that particular site safe for the president. It's going to take more than just throwing money at it.”

Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Barrasso, R-Wyo., led a majority of the Senate in introducing a resolution Tuesday to officially condemn the attempted assassination of former President Trump earlier this month at a rally in Pennsylvania.

If passed in the upper chamber, the resolution would condemn the attempt on Trump's life, honor "the victims who were killed and injured at the rally" and call "for unity and civility in the United States."

The condemnation amassed 64 co-sponsors, notably including both Democratic Pennsylvania Sens. Bob Casey and John Fetterman, whose constituents were victims.

Barrasso plans to request passage of the resolution either through a mechanism known as a "hotline" that allows for objection or by unanimous consent on the Senate floor. It would take one senator's objection to prevent either.

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