CBS News: Biden administration seeks to increase Secret Service funding

[Dennis Donovan]

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Biden Administration requests flexibility from Congress to beef up its funding for US Secret Service

Without special flexibility in the coming weeks... "The Secret Service would have insufficient resources to sustain and enhance protective operations"

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Biden administration seeks to increase Secret Service funding

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The Biden administration has asked Congress for special permission to increase its spending on the Secret Service in the coming weeks, even if Congress passes only a short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown.

Multiple sources told CBS News a so-called anomaly request has been submitted to congressional committees by the Biden administration. In the request, the administration's Office of Management and Budget warns that without some flexibility to ratchet up spending on the agency in the coming weeks "the Secret Service would have insufficient resources to sustain and enhance protective operations."

Congressional staffers told CBS News there are increasing concerns about the level of funding for the agency. The uncertainty over how much additional funding the Secret Service will need has further knotted negotiations and deliberations over government spending for the new fiscal year, which starts in October.

The request to Congress argues that if the Biden administration is given special permission to increase Secret Service spending in the short term, "USSS would sustain current operations and address additional protective and campaign travel, operations, and overtime costs as they arise."

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[SoFlaBro]

1. Orange Bastard needs a treadmill if they want to protect his health. That fat asshole is about to tip the fuck over.

[Lovie777]

2. GQP House approve?........................

I think not.

[Freethinker65]

3. How about not spontaneously playing golf?

Give adequate time for sweeps by security. Secret Service seems to have performed ok in this case. I am sure gun toting second amendment types are randomly carrying their weapons all over Florida and they sure as hell would not enjoy being harassed because Trump has an impulse to go somewhere or do something.

Trump gets a three to five football field gun free perimeter, unlike playgrounds, schools, etc.

And in this instance, what exactly would more agents have done differently? Now they are reporting, thankfully, the guy didn't even get set up to take a shot. The Secret Service on hand did their jobs. Are more agents now to be assigned to harass everyone within three football fields distance if Trump spontaneously decides to play golf? Let me guess, they will all be given rack rate + rooms ant Mar-a-Lago and Trump's other resorts? So Trump can make money off of it.

[MissB]

4. Isn't there still a danger of a government shut down?

Tie the funding to a stop gap measure.