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Senate eyes more Secret Service funding after second Trump assassination attempt 
By
Ramsey Touchberry
and
David Sivak
September 16, 2024 5:13 pm
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Senators expressed openness to additional Secret Service funding on Monday following another assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

“If the Secret Service is in need of more resources, we are prepared in providing it for them, possibly in the upcoming funding agreement,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said in remarks on the Senate floor.


Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) did not address the funding but said Trump must receive the security needed to protect him.

“The American people deserve answers,” McConnell said. “They deserve assurances that a former president, who tens of millions of Americans have nominated once again, will receive every appropriate measure of security, and they ought to receive them without delay.”

 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/3156038/senate-backs-secret-service-funding-trump-assassination-attempt/
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I'm curious as to how throwing more money alone at an incompetent, inept organization is going to improve it? :shrug:
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Giving more money to Stupid will only buy you more Stupid.
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Giving more money to Stupid will only buy you more Stupid.
:yowsa:, you do realize that is the end goal, right?
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I'm curious as to how throwing more money alone at an incompetent, inept organization is going to improve it? :shrug:

Improve it?  Who said anything about improving it?  It is simply an excuse to spend more money, pile on more debt, and buy votes.
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I'm curious as to how throwing more money alone at an incompetent, inept organization is going to improve it? :shrug:
Even if they give the agency more money, it will just be spent on more DEI/LGBTQ nonsense.
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