Fox News Contributor Calls to Cut Secret Service Funding Day After Trump Thanks Democrats for Increasing It
Fox News contributor Sean Duffy called for Congress to cut funding to the Secret Service a day after Donald Trump thanked Democrats for all voting to increase their budget in a bipartisan vote.
On Wednesday, the former president thanked Congressional Democrats for joining with Republicans to allocate more funding to the Secret Service following the second assassination attempt against his life.
“Big threats on my life by Iran. The entire U.S. Military is watching and waiting. Moves were already made by Iran that didn’t work out, but they will try again. Not a good situation for anyone,” Trump wrote. “Thank you to Congress for unanimously approving far more money to Secret Service – Zero “NO” Votes, strictly bipartisan. Nice to see Republicans and Democrats get together on something.”
However, during a Thursday airing of Outnumbered, Duffy questioned if the Secret Service intentionally failed to protect Trump and demanded Congress cut the agency’s funding. Duffy fumed:
When we look at the utter failings of the Secret Service, that this shot went off. It could be incompetence, but it begs the question, was it intentional? Because you can’t imagine that the Secret Service is that incompetent. And then you move from there to the Florida golf course that that shooter was allowed to stay in the bushes for, what, 12 hours and was only spotted moments before Donald Trump came into range after the July 13th assassination attempt.
Begs the question, why doesn’t the Secret Service care about Donald Trump’s life? And I frankly, I don’t think they do. And if they want to come clean and go, listen, we’re going to tell you all of our failings, what we did, what we did wrong. We’re going to tell the Congress what happened here. That would make complete sense, I think. Would you feel better about it?
The problem is they’re stonewalling. And I guess we’re talking about Iran. I get Iran. We should be concerned about Iran. But it was the Secret Service that failed. It’s it’s the federal government that’s stonewalling the Congress and it’s Donald Trump’s life at stake. And so I think there’s a lot more work to be done here and a lot more accountability to be had. I don’t think we can get the answers from the Secret Service. And by the way, the Congress love what they’re doing, but they’re not an investigative agency. They’re legislative. And it’s hard for them to do this work, especially when they don’t have an agency that’s going to cooperate.
Cut their funding.
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