Lawmakers grow frustrated with Mayorkas over handling of Trump assassination attempts

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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is facing growing calls for more transparency in the wake of two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump.

Lawmakers from both parties have expressed frustration about the lack of information Mayorkas’s Department of Homeland Security, which houses the Secret Service, has provided about the July 13 attempt on Trump’s life in Butler, Pennsylvania. Those concerns have compounded in the week since a suspected gunman was arrested outside Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida, golf course.

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