(23 Jul 2024)
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Washington, DC – 23 July 2024
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1. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Mike Johnson, U.S. Speaker of the House:
I’m glad she did the right thing. Look, our reaction, the immediate reaction to her resignation is that it is overdue. She should have done this at least a week ago. I’m happy to see that. I’m happy to see that she has heeded the call of both Republicans and Democrats. Now we have to pick up the pieces. We have to rebuild the American people’s faith and trust in the Secret Service as an agency. It has an incredibly important responsibility in protecting presidents, former presidents, and other officials in the executive branch. And, we’ve got a lot of work to do. The task force that we will be putting together is going to be very important. As I said, they have three responsibilities to investigate what happened, the debacle that happened two Saturdays ago, to hold those accountable. It certainly was the director, Cheatle. But there may be others in the line of authority who were also culpable in what happened and the errors and mistakes there. And finally, to ensure that those mistakes do not happen again."
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STORYLINE:
House Speaker Mike Johnson says the resignation of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle was “overdue” and that it should have happened at least a week ago.
News of Cheatle’s resignation happened just as Johnson and Republican leaders were wrapping up their weekly press conference Tuesday morning.
“I’m happy to see that,” Johnson said. “I’m happy to see she has heeded the call of both Republicans and Democrats. Now we have to pick up the pieces. We have to rebuild the American people’s faith and trust in the Secret Service as an agency.”
Earlier Tuesday, Johnson and Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries announced the formation of a bipartisan task force to investigate the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump and the security failures that led up to it.
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