The bipartisan House task force charged with investigating the attempted assassination of Donald Trump likely will lead to significant legislation, House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., says.
Comer’s oversight committee has jurisdiction over the Secret Service, which is under scrutiny for what some call catastrophic security failures at the former president’s July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The agency is tasked with protecting the president, vice president, presidential candidates, and visiting foreign leaders.
“I think that what we will do is take their recommendations and work to try to—I assume we will pass some type of legislation to reform the Secret Service,” Comer told The Daily Signal just days after Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testified to his committee.
Cheatle resigned Tuesday after…
