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U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D., addressed the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) today, urging the Biden Administration to provide former President Trump with the same level of Secret Service protection as current President Biden and Vice President Harris.

Following the assassination attempt on September 15th against former President Trump, Senator Marshall led his GOP colleagues in sending a letter to acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe. The letter questioned why additional protective resources had not been allocated to Trump after a previous assassination attempt on July 13th.

During his remarks, Senator Marshall stated: “Mr. Chairman, in typical fashion, Congress is sitting here, we’re forming committees, we’re studying this, we’re interviewing people, we’re praying. Meanwhile, there’s a second assassination attempt on former President Trump.”

He further expressed frustration with the White House's inaction: “What I’m frustrated about is the White House has the authority, without any congressional action, to go ahead and give him the same type of protection that President Biden is getting. We have over 7,000 employees for the Secret Service. They’re spread out over 100 offices across the country, and I understand they all got chores to do, but for the next 55 days or so, they need to marshall those resources to protect President Trump, now, yesterday.”

Marshall concluded by emphasizing the urgency of enhanced security measures: “This would be horrible for a third attempt to occur, so I would call on the White House to move forward with some type of action to give President Trump the maximum protection, the same type of protection we give the sitting President of the United States.”