Lawmakers call on Secret Service boss to resign | 22 July 2024 | Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers called on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to step down in the wake of the assassination attempt of Donald Trump. The demand came during and after a tense House Oversight Committee hearing on Monday that questioned Ms. Cheatle about her agency's security preparations ahead of a 13 July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, that led to the attempt on Trump's life. The shooting left one person dead and three others wounded - including the former president. Monday's hearing was bruising for Ms Cheatle, as lawmakers ridiculed her answers and the lack of information the agency had made public, but it was also a rare show of bipartisanship on an increasingly polarised Capitol Hill.