House Oversight leaders send joint letter urging Cheatle to resign in rare show of bipartisanship

House Oversight Chairman James Comer and ranking member Jamie Raskin signed a joint letter on Monday, calling for Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign. 

The rare show of bipartisanship comes after Cheatle testified in front of the committee on Monday, but gave few details to explain the agency's failure to prevent the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a rally last week.

"Today, you failed to provide answers to basic questions regarding that stunning operational failure and to reassure the American people that the Secret Service has learned its lessons and begun to correct its systemic blunders and failures," the committee leaders wrote in the letter.

"In the middle of a presidential election, the Committee and the American people demand serious institutional accountability and transparency that you are not providing," the letter continued. "We call on you to resign as Director as a first step to allowing new leadership to swiftly address this crisis and rebuild the trust of a truly concerned Congress and the American people."

The letter comes after other House Democrats called for Cheatle's resignation in the wake of the shooting. California Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, Florida Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz, and Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Brendan Boyle have also publicly called for Cheatle to resign. 

Cheatle has refrained from resigning her post so far, but admitted in her testimony on Monday that the Secret Service failed at the Pennsylvania rally, stating it was the agency's "most significant operational failure" in many years.

Misty Severi is an evening news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.