The ABC7 I-Team found the Secret Service's budget grew from $1.3 billion in FY 2004 to $3.1 billion in FY 2024, according to a review of Department of Homeland Security's budget reports released annually.
Barb Markoff, Christine Tressel and Tom JonesThe alleged Trump rally gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks' was spotted on the roof at 5:52 p.m. The shooting happened at 6:12 p.m., 20 minutes later.There are several new scenarios and pieces of information coming together that may have contributed to the assassination attempt on former President and Republican nominee Donald Trump.
"The biggest challenge for the agency was being under resourced," said John Koskinen with the National Academy of Public Administration, a nonpartisan group of experts that is commissioned by Congress to study federal agencies.The group's findings were released in a 2021 report titled, "Building for the Future: Employee Engagement in the United States Secret Service."
While that number may sound small, Koskinen says you have to keep in mind all of the family members, and traveling that goes into Secret Service protection.Secret Service agent who took bullet for Reagan in 1981 reacts after Trump rally shooting While watching the tragedy unfold this past weekend, Koskinen said the agency's resources crossed his mind.
Last weekend, local police in Butler County, Pennsylvania, were so strapped, they couldn't even put a squad car near the building where the shooter ended up.
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