Congress unlikely to create special task force for dinner shooting, Fox News is told
We have heard relatively little from Capitol Hill about any sort of inquest into what went wrong and led to the assassination attempt Saturday night.
The House Oversight Committee has demanded a Secret Service briefing. But there are muted demands for hearings or to haul in various officials for testimony depositions.
Contrast this to the July, 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Within days, the House created a special task force to probe what went wrong in Butler.
There were hearings within a couple of weeks.
But Fox is told there may not be as much of that this time.
First of all, the system MOSTLY worked. That said, there are lots of questions about the location of security perimeters, whether the entire hotel should have been locked down, et al.
But the biggest impediment may be a political one:
A major move by House committees to dig deeper could trigger a push by Democrats — and some Republicans — to subpoena FBI Director Kash Patel and former Attorney General Pam Bondi. Even former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
The House Oversight Committee has demonstrated a ferocious appetite to issue bipartisan subpoenaes over the past year — mostly connected to the Epstein inquiry.
So it’s unclear just how deep lawmakers are willing to dig after this episode. And Fox has asked multiple times if there could be the creation of a special panel to investigate Saturday night, ala Butler. But there’s no indication yet that lawmakers are ready to go in that direction.
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