Secret Service May Get More Funding After Failing To Stop Trump Assassination Attempt

Government agencies are expensive, incompetent, and overreaching. The Secret Service is no exception. Joe Lancaster

• Almost immediately after the shooting, a narrative emerged that the lapse owed to a lack of resources...
• "Congress provided (an increase of) more than $190 million to the Secret Service in Fiscal Year 2024, specifically for protection requirements related to the 2024 presidential campaign, plus an additional $22 million above President Biden's budget request for protection-related travel costs," the senators wrote... 
• "Secret Service real spending has grown from $2.34 billion in 2014 to $3.62 billion in 2024, which is a 55 percent increase in ten years," Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute wrote this week...
• It is possible the agency may be stretched thin in its duties...
• But it's also worth keeping in mind that government agencies, by their nature, do too much, too poorly, and for too much money...