Secret Service overhaul talk hits Capitol Hill after Trump assassination attempts

The caller attempts connected erstwhile President Trump’s beingness person near immoderate House Republicans questioning whether the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) should stay nether the power of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

"I deliberation that's thing that we should look astatine — if we request to region them from Homeland, marque them a standalone bureau oregon reply to idiosyncratic else. I mean, their mission, I think, is wholly antithetic than a batch of the agencies nether that Department of Homeland Security umbrella," Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss., vice seat of the Committee connected Homeland Security, told Fox News Digital.

The Secret Service was established successful 1865 arsenic a bureau of the Treasury Department to tackle counterfeiting and was authorized by Congress to supply full-time extortion to the president successful 1913, according to the agency's website. It was transferred from the Treasury Department to the recently created DHS successful 2003.

The bureau has faced a barrage of scrutiny aft 2 assassination attempts against Trump. In July, Trump was injured aft a 20-year-old gunman opened occurrence connected his rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania, sidesplitting 1 attendee. Last weekend, officers arrested a 58-year-old antheral who appeared to person been waiting for Trump astatine his West Palm Beach play people with an AK-47.

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Congress has focused scrutiny connected the Secret Service aft 2 failed assassination attempts connected erstwhile President Trump (Getty Images)

No legislative connection has surfaced connected this circumstantial issue, but respective GOP lawmakers told Fox News Digital the incidents spurred wider conversations among immoderate members astir DHS successful general.

"I deliberation what this opens up is the grade to which, 20 years later, the contented of creating the Department of Homeland Security successful the archetypal spot should beryllium questioned," said Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas. "Frankly, DHS is failing arsenic a whole, connected aggregate levels.

"That's not a testament to immoderate of the enactment folks. … But the apical folks successful the bureaucracy, it's sidesplitting us. … Secret Service would beryllium a step."

Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., said DHS being "a catch-all agency" was "not working."

"I conscionable honestly consciousness that the Secret Service isn't getting the sunshine oregon the attraction it needs from [Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas], simply due to the fact that his bureau is massive. And I deliberation there's thing incorrect with america breaking that up," Donalds said. "And it's not conscionable Secret Service. It's borderline security. It's migration processes and each the different stuff."

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Rep. Chip Roy said it should make treatment astir DHS's relation successful general. (Getty Images)

Donalds added that it would apt not feasibly beryllium done this year, but helium suggested determination could beryllium a much superior propulsion if Republicans kept the House bulk successful November.

Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, recalled that, during his clip successful the White House aesculapian unit, determination was immoderate discontent among agents astir being moved to DHS.

"For a while, erstwhile it archetypal happened, I cognize for a information — due to the fact that I was astir these guys each time being astatine the White House 14 years — they weren't large fans of it. … They were benignant of a large food successful a small pond erstwhile they were with Treasury, and past erstwhile they got rolled into this massive, you know, bureaucracy of DHS … they felt similar it benignant of downgraded their value and their abilities," Jackson said.

Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., likewise told Fox News Digital helium "wouldn’t beryllium opposed" to looking astatine breaking up DHS.

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A wide presumption of the fenced country adjacent the sixth spread of Trump International Golf Club successful West Palm Beach, Fla., wherever Ryan Routh allegedly waited for erstwhile President Trump Sunday. (Peter Burke/Fox News Digital/Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office)

And Rep. Mark Alford, R-Mo., wrote connected X successful caller days, "We don’t request to propulsion much wealth astatine the U.S. Secret Service — we request caller leadership.

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"I judge we should determination the USSS backmost nether the Treasury Department, distant from Homeland Security — which has go a governmental instrumentality nether the biggest liar since Pinocchio, Alejandro Mayorkas," Alford said.

Several different House Republicans who spoke with Fox News Digital, however, were either skeptical of the thought oregon said they had not had specified discussions.

"People accidental a batch of things that, I don't cognize if it's conscionable disconnected the cuff, but they accidental things are – it's conscionable a thought process that they're going through," said House Trump shooting task force president Mike Kelly, R-Pa. "There's a operation successful spot close now."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Secret Service and DHS for remark but did not person responses anterior to publication.