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House Republicans want women Secret Service agents to meet nan aforesaid fittingness standards arsenic men, successful their first legislative effort since nan grounded assassination deed on Donald Trump.
GOP lawmakers introduced a measure this week to instrumentality 'sex-neutral' fittingness tests successful nan work and require female agents to lucifer up to their antheral counterparts.
It comes amid fears that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies led to ill-equipped women agents moving astatine nan rally successful Pennsylvania wherever a 20-year-old sniper changeable and grazed erstwhile president Trump.
It besides comes arsenic Secret Service leader Kimberly Cheatle resigned connected Tuesday, nether unit from Republicans and Democrats complete nan failures connected July 13.
Cheatle had pushed to get women successful 30 percent of Secret Service roles by 2030, wherever they are taxable to little rigorous fittingness evaluations than men.
Critics opportunity nan women Secret Service agents were not gangly capable to shield Trump from immoderate further bullets
Secret Service leader Kimberly Cheatle resigned connected Tuesday aft facing a grilling complete information failures astatine nan rally and her diversity-hiring quotas
Josh Brecheen, nan Oklahoma Republican who sponsors nan bill, says it's clip to scrap DEI initiatives successful a work that protects, presidents, vice presidents, erstwhile presidents, candidates, and family members.
'We request our Secret Service agents to beryllium afloat prepared and trained to do their jobs,' said Brecheen.
'What happened astatine nan rally — wherever a shooter was allowed to beryllium wrong 150 yards of President Trump — tin ne'er hap again.'
The 'Secret Service Readiness Act,' he added, was conscionable a 'starting point' and that overmuch much needs to beryllium done to get nan work 'back successful statement pinch its mission.'
Much much needs to beryllium done successful nan days and weeks ahead, but hopefully this authorities is simply a bully starting constituent for getting our US Secret Service backmost successful statement pinch its mission.'
Trump, 78, was holding a run rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania — a cardinal authorities successful nan November 5 predetermination — erstwhile shots rang out, hitting his correct receptor and leaving his look streaked pinch blood.
One personification successful nan crowd was killed, and 2 others wounded earlier agents fatally shot nan suspect, a 20-year-old man pinch an AR-15-style firearm who sewage adjacent capable to sprout astatine Trump from a adjacent rooftop.
Analysts person pored complete videos of nan shooting and highlighted flaws successful nan Secret Service item that was protecting nan Republican.
As good arsenic nan evident flaw of failing to fastener down nan rooftop nan shooter used, they highlighted really immoderate female agents astatine nan rally were not large aliases skilled capable to decently protect Trump.
Analysts person pored complete footage of nan grounded assassination, and women agents who appeared confused and incapable to grip weapons
Women Secret Service recruits do not request to beryllium arsenic fresh arsenic their antheral counterparts to go an agent
Oklahoma Republican Josh Brecheen says it's clip to scrap DEI schemes successful nan Secret Service
The female supplier was utilized successful an net meme astir really diversity-hiring had weakened nan Secret Service
Other online pundits suggested that female agents were much willing successful redeeming themselves than protecting nan erstwhile president
One female supplier who rushed complete to huddle astir Trump doubtless acted bravely, but opinionated astatine only astir 5ft 5in was not capable to protect nan 6ft 3in erstwhile president.
As Trump was bundled into an flight vehicle, 1 female Secret Service supplier was seen fumbling pinch her gun, incapable to find nan holster, while different females appeared confused and frightened successful nan crisis.
The caller Secret Service measure seeks to tackle nan evident shortcomings successful nan women section agents by holding antheral and female applicants to nan aforesaid standards erstwhile applying for jobs astatine nan agency.
Under Secret Service introduction tests, women candidates only person to meet little fittingness standards than men for pushups, sit-ups, chin-ups, and nan mile run.
The measure would require nan Secret Service to found 'sex-neutral fitness' standards that are not little than nan existent requirements for antheral applicants aliases those for existent agents and officers.
If passed, nan work would person to alteration nan rules wrong 90 days, and study backmost connected their occurrence 180 days later.
The measure has reportedly garnered support from astir a twelve Republican co-sponsors, but it remains unclear whether it could summation capable traction to go law.
Cheatle has said she took work for nan information failures astatine nan rally and resigned connected Tuesday, nether bipartisan pressure.
She was grilled by House lawmakers connected Monday, during which she was grilled complete failures and her diversity-hiring quotas. She said that Trump's assassination effort had 'nothing to do pinch DEI.'
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