{"id":29972,"date":"2024-07-22T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=29972"},"modified":"2024-07-22T21:10:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T02:10:32","slug":"mace-moves-to-force-a-vote-on-impeaching-secret-service-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=29972","title":{"rendered":"Mace moves to force a vote on impeaching Secret Service director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Rep.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/nancy-mace\/\"><u>Nancy Mace\u2002<\/u><\/a>(R-S.C.) on Monday moved to force a vote on impeaching U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, ratcheting up the pressure on the embattled agency leader following the assassination attempt on former President Trump earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The effort by Mace \u2014 which forces leadership to act on the resolution within two legislative days \u2014&nbsp;came just over one week after the shooting at Trump\u2019s rally in Butler, Pa., which left Trump injured, one rally goer dead and two others seriously injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It also comes hours after&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/4786857-secret-service-director-cheatle-hearing\/mlite\/\"><u>lawmakers from both parties grilled Cheatle<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;in an Oversight Committee hearing that left them frustrated and exasperated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Mace took on Cheatle directly during the hearing, telling her \u201cyou\u2019re full of s\u2014.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou\u2019re just being completely dishonest,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The shooting has sparked intense scrutiny on the Secret Service \u2014 especially Cheatle \u2014 with lawmakers raising questions about security lapses at the rally and how a gunman could get so close to a former president and the current presidential nominee of a major political party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Several lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called on her to resign, a number that grew at Monday\u2019s hearing. Cheatle has said she does not plan to leave her post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It remains unclear how Speaker&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/mike-johnson\/\"><u>Mike Johnson\u2002<\/u><\/a>(R-La.) and his leadership team plan to handle the measure, which accuses Cheatle of dereliction of duty. They could either stage a vote on the resolution or move to table it or refer it to committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Asked about potential options if Cheatle does not resign \u2014&nbsp;including impeachment \u2014 during an interview with The Hill at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last week, Johnson said, \u201cWe\u2019re looking at all those options right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/4787269-mace-impeach-secret-service-director-cheatle\/\">thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep.&nbsp;Nancy Mace\u2002(R-S.C.) on Monday moved to force a vote on impeaching U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, ratcheting up the pressure on the embattled agency leader following the assassination attempt on former President Trump earlier this month. The effort by Mace \u2014 which forces leadership to act on the resolution within two legislative days \u2014&nbsp;came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2445,4601,5306,6939,3165],"class_list":["post-29972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-commissioner","tag-impeachment","tag-mace","tag-secret-service","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29974,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29972\/revisions\/29974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}