One month to the day since former president Donald Trump was nearly assassinated at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Rep. David Kustoff, R-Tenn., told Newsmax on Tuesday he believes the U.S. Secret Service should be moved from the Department of Homeland Security to the Treasury Department.
“I’ve dealt with the Secret Service professionally as a federal prosecutor. Still deal with the Secret Service now, think that the rank-and-file men and women do a good job, and they’re committed to their jobs,” Kustoff said. “But to me, it’s always been a better fit for the Secret Service, based on everything they do, to be part of the Treasury Department.”
President Abraham Lincoln established the Secret Service in 1865 to counteract the rise of counterfeit currency after the Civil War. It remained under the purview of the Treasury Department for 138 years until the Homeland Security Department was established in 2002.
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