Mike Johnson Says He’ll Call For Secret Service Director’s Resignation After Trump Assassination Attempt

House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Wednesday he is going to urge Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

Cheatle said Monday that she would not be stepping down from her position after her agency received backlash over potential security failures that led to Trump being wounded by a snipper’s bullet on Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania. Johnson on “America’s Newsroom” said he plans to call for Cheatle’s resignation because of the incident itself as well as her answers when facing questions from the media.

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“We are going to move quickly. I’ll be setting up on Monday a task force, a special task force within the House and the reason we’re going to do it that way is because that is a more precision strike,” Johson said. “It goes quicker. There’s not a lot of procedural hurdles and we’ll have subpoena authority for that task force as well. It’ll be compiled of Republicans and Democrats to get down to the bottom of this quickly so the American people can get the answers that they deserve. Since the assassination attempt, within hours I was on the phone with Secretary Mayorkas at Homeland Security. He did not have satisfactory answers at that time. I have since spoken to leaders at the FBI, Director of National Intelligence.”