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House unanimously passes bill enhancing Trump’s Secret Service protection level after two attempted assassinations
NY Post ^ | 09/20/2024 | Josh Christenson

Posted on 09/20/2024 8:57:28 AM PDT by DFG

The House unanimously passed a bill on Friday enhancing former President Donald Trump’s Secret Service protection level after two assassination attempts against the Republican nominee 64 days apart.

By a 405-0 vote, lawmakers directed the Secret Service to apply uniform standards of protection “for determining the number of agents required to protect Presidents, Vice Presidents, and major Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates.”

The bill was voted under suspension of the House rules, meaning it needed two-thirds approval to pass.

The legislation also requires the Secret Service to issue a report on the effectiveness of its protection for presidents, vice presidents, former presidents and major presidential and vice presidential candidates, who are designated to be “major” protectees by the Homeland Security secretary and congressional leaders.

Reps. Mike Lawler (R-NY) and Ritchie Torres (D-NY) introduced the bill the day after Trump’s first brush with death, when would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, shot him in the ear at a Pennsylvania campaign rally on July 13.

It was brought up for a vote this week, five days after Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, set up a sniper’s nest off the 6th hole at Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach in Florida.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: house; secretservice; trump
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1 posted on 09/20/2024 8:57:28 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

The Senate will kill it or Biden will veto it................


2 posted on 09/20/2024 8:59:37 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: DFG

Should have always been...there is no excuse...


3 posted on 09/20/2024 9:00:23 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (mY)
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To: DFG

Will it pass the Senate?


4 posted on 09/20/2024 9:00:28 AM PDT by null and void (Don't hallucinate and legislate, don't hallucinate and educate, don't hallucinate and procreate)
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To: DFG

Real Secret Service protection not the Woke Fake kind


5 posted on 09/20/2024 9:01:33 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Red Badger

Get them on the record then and hang the secret service’s failures around their necks.

CC


6 posted on 09/20/2024 9:01:39 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: DFG

So now more foxes watching the henhouse


7 posted on 09/20/2024 9:03:36 AM PDT by zeebee
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To: Red Badger

After a 405-0 House vote, it’s hard to see Democrats voting to kill President Trump.

Unless they can find some procedural fig leaf to oppose on technical grounds.


8 posted on 09/20/2024 9:03:45 AM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: DFG

And Democrats offered to give him a state-of-the-art pager in case of emergencies...


9 posted on 09/20/2024 9:04:59 AM PDT by Farmerbob
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To: Red Badger

Biden will get all the credit by making an immediate executive order identical to the House bill and beating and bypassing the Senate.


10 posted on 09/20/2024 9:05:36 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: DFG
Well, bless their little opportunistic hearts. J6 protestors deprived of all due process and civil rights and our Repugnant Congress says NOTHING! The border has been eliminated by traitors at the highest levels and many Americans (Springfield, OH, anyone?) are suffering terribly and our Repugnant Congress says NOTHING! Treasonous blue states facilitate voter fraud and ......... our Repugnant Congress still says NOTHING!

Ad infinitum; ad nauseum.

But they ordered more SS protection for President Trump? Stop it. I'm getting misty.

11 posted on 09/20/2024 9:05:44 AM PDT by LouAvul (DEI = Didn't Earn It. )
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To: citizen

After a 405-0 House vote, it’s hard to see Democrats voting to kill President Trump.

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It will be a PR nightmare for anyone who opposes this.

Biden may be a lame duck and doesn’t need to care about re-election anymore, but he still has to worry about hurting Harris


12 posted on 09/20/2024 9:07:32 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Red Badger
The Senate will kill it or Biden will veto it................"

If they could the Senate majority would remove all USSS protection from Donald Trump and JD Vance.

13 posted on 09/20/2024 9:11:22 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Red Badger

“The Senate will kill it or Biden will veto it................”

Maybe, but knowing the Republicans, I won’t take effect for another 4 years or so.

If it is really meant for this election (LOL), then the Democrats might just support anyway, as that way, the assassination attempts can more easily be memory-holed.


14 posted on 09/20/2024 9:11:47 AM PDT by BobL
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To: Carl Vehse

There didn’t used to be ANY USSS protections for candidates...............


15 posted on 09/20/2024 9:12:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: DFG

Who will protect Trump from the “Palace Guard”?


16 posted on 09/20/2024 9:13:49 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: Red Badger

Bill or no bill, I don’t trust them. He should have Bongino, Prince and Posobic recruit a private security team and let them oversee it. I am sure they would do it for free out of patriotism - but in any case, they will all wind up getting positions in his administration.


17 posted on 09/20/2024 9:13:53 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: null and void

Schumer has promised to pass it.


18 posted on 09/20/2024 9:13:56 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: All

Exposing FBI man Jeffry Veltri’s extreme hatred for President Donald Trump
<><>was expressed in his deranged Facebook rants
<><>FBI superiors in ordered him to take it down before
<><> he was then named to lead the Miami FBI office
<><>Veltri is now tasked with leading the assassination attempt investigation.

And this-——Veltri created the notorious “Trump Questionnaire” which was designed to weed out Trump supporters from being hired the FBI by labeling them as security threats.

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19 posted on 09/20/2024 9:15:45 AM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)
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To: Carl Vehse

They actually considered that not to long ago.


20 posted on 09/20/2024 9:16:33 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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