Whistleblower says Secret Service was told not to request extra manpower for July 13 Trump rally

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said he was told by a whistleblower that Secret Service headquarters told agents working at the rally where former President Donald Trump was almost assassinated, not to request extra manpower for help with the event. 

"Whistleblower says Secret Service HQ told agents working the Butler PA event NOT to request additional manpower resources for the rally & warned any such requests would be denied," Hawley wrote on the social media platform, X on Friday.

Hawley said that Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe told Congress that resources were not denied for the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. 

He posted a letter that he wrote to Rowe requesting information and his response to the whistleblower's claims.

"Your actions to place some field agents on leave is not enough," Hawley wrote in the letter. "These serious allegations suggest that the failures to protect the former president extended to top officials at the agency."

It was reported Friday that multiple Secret Service agents were placed on leave by the agency amid the ongoing investigation into the attempted assassination of the 45th president. 

CBS News reports the head of the agency's Pittsburgh field office has been placed on leave.