Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt, Missouri’s two Republican U.S. senators, agree on many things.
Most recently, their minds have met over the Secret Service’s response, or alleged lack thereof, to two assassination attempts on former President Donald Trump.
Last week, the U.S Senate’s Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee adopted an amendment proposed by Hawley that would require the Secret Service to turn over all documents related to the shooting attempts to the Senate.
“Given the way that Secret Service and DHS has stonewalled this committee ... I just think it’s incumbent upon us to say we want this information,”Hawley told the committee.
As to how forthcoming the Secret Service will be, Schmitt said he has his doubts.
skeptical,” Schmitt said with The Heartlander, a conservative publication. “I think whether it’s the FBI or the Secret Service, we just need answers.”
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“I don’t care if you’re Republican or you’re a Democrat; political violence is a terrible thing that should be condemned,” Schmitt said.
Hawley has been sharply critical —since the assassination attempt in July in Pennsylvania in which Trump was shot in the ear— of the protection provided to Trump. He recently whistleblowers’ report that questions the protection strategies of the Secret Service.
In his ongoing criticism, Hawley has said the Secret Service is plagued by a “compounding pattern of negligence, sloppiness, and gross incompetence that goes back years.”