Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin calls for Secret Service director to resign after testimony

House Oversight and Accountability Ranking Member Jamie Raskin on Monday joined the calls for Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign from her post, after she testified in front of the committee.

Cheatle was subpoenaed by the committee to testify on her agency's response to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally last week. Two others were wounded in the attack, and two were killed, including the alleged shooter.

Raskin joined other House Democrats in calling for Cheatle's resignation after she failed to adequately explain the agency's failure to prevent the shooting. 

“I don’t want to add to the director’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day, but I will be joining the chairman in calling for the resignation of the director, just because I think that this relationship is irretrievable at this point,” Raskin said, per The Hill.

"I think that the director has lost the confidence of Congress at a very urgent and tender moment in the history of the country," he continued. "And we need to very quickly move beyond this.” 

Raskin added that it was also the fault of Congress for the security failure, because they have not fought hard enough to keep assault weapons away from the public.

“The president, the former president and a handful of people who get the Secret Service protection are the only people in America we thought were safe from an AR-15 attack," Raskin said. "It’s clear that they’re not safe, either."

California Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, and Democratic Florida Rep. Jared Moskowitz also called for the director's resignation on Monday. Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Brendan Boyle was the first Democrat to call for Cheatle to resign, and made his call over the weekend.

“I just don’t think this is partisan — if you have an assassination attempt on a president, a former president or a candidate, you need to resign,” Khanna said during the hearing. “You cannot go leading a Secret Service agency when there is an assassination attempt on a presidential candidate.”

Cheatle has shied away from resigning her post over the shooting, 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.