Congress May Pass More Funding for Secret Service After Trump Assassination Attempt

Several congressional leaders have suggested that the U.S. Secret Service could receive more funding soon, following a second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on Sept. 15. Trump, the Republican Party’s nominee for the 2024 presidential election, was allegedly targeted by Ryan Routh, a 58-year-old gunman with a rifle at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida—whom a Secret Service agent spotted as Trump was moving on the golf course. Routh was fired upon by the agent and escaped, though he was later apprehended, while Trump was unharmed. Trump previously faced an assassination attempt on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, where his right ear was grazed by a bullet fired by a 20-year-old gunman....