President Joe Biden wants Congress to give the US Secret Service “more help” following the second apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, he told reporters on Monday (16).
“Thank God the president is OK,” Biden said.
“The one thing I want to make clear is that the Service needs more help, and I think Congress should respond to their needs if they do need more people in the Service,” Biden said at the White House, shortly before departing for Delaware and Pennsylvania. “So that’s what we’re going to talk about.”
Asked by Kevin Liptak of CNN Asked what kind of help they needed, Biden replied: “I think we need more personnel.”
Staffing problems have plagued the Secret Service for years. Agents and officers have described feeling burned out by overtime shifts and long assignments, leading to high turnover.
Then-Director Kim Cheatle told Congress over the summer that the agency currently has 8,000 employees but that its goal was to reach 9,500.
The Secret Service faced significant scrutiny after the first assassination attempt on Trump, when he was shot in the ear during a rally in July.
This content was originally published in Secret Service “needs more help,” says Biden after apparent attack on Trump on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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