Race to boost Secret Ser­vice fund­ing hits GOP snag after Trump assas­si­na­tion attempt

The frus­tra­tion over the sec­ond assas­si­na­tion attempt against for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump is bipar­ti­san, but less so is how to make sure it doesn’t hap­pen again.
Shelling out more mon­ey for the Secret Ser­vice in forth­com­ing spend­ing bills is like­ly to face resis­tance among an array of con­gres­sion­al Repub­li­cans, who say the more than $3 bil­lion agency needs to sim­ply shift resources to the GOP pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee rather than nec­es­sar­i­ly hire more agents.
“They got plen­ty of per­son­nel, they’ve got plen­ty of mon­ey,” Sen. Roger Mar­shall (R‑KS) said. “They need to pri­or­i­tize where to be plac­ing these Secret Ser­vice agents. They’ve got the peo­ple to do it.”
Sen. Tom­my Tuberville (R‑AL) laid out the secu­ri­ty chal­lenges he’s seen first­hand when play­ing golf with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, the for­mer president’s South Flori­da resort where author­i­ties say Ryan Wes­ley Routh lurked in bush­es along the perime­ter with an AK-style rifle until Sec …