Committee Actions to Date
On July 15, 2024, Chairman Peters and Ranking Member Paul announced their
investigation into the assassination attempt on former President Trump and called for a briefing
and public hearing within 15 days. 12 On July 24 and 25, 2024, Chairmen Peters and Blumenthal
and Ranking Members Paul and Johnson sent ten letters requesting documents and information
to the USSS, FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Intelligence and Analysis,
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Beaver County District Attorney,
Butler County District Attorney, Butler County Sheriff, Butler Township Police Department,
Pennsylvania State Police (PSP), and Clairton Sportsmen’s Club as well as a letter requesting
voluntary transcribed interviews with USSS individuals responsible for planning and security on
July 13.13
On July 25, 2024, Acting USSS Director Rowe and FBI National Security Branch
Executive Assistant Director Wells provided a closed-door unclassified briefing for HSGAC and
Judiciary Committee Members. 14 And on July 30, 2024, Acting Director Rowe and FBI Deputy
Director Paul Abbate testified at a joint public hearing before the Senate HSGAC and Judiciary
Committees.15
On August 14, 2024, the Committee wrote DHS Secretary Mayorkas and FBI Director
Wray seeking additional information about the July 12, 2024 arrest of Asif Merchant for
12 Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Gary Peters and Ranking Member
Rand Paul letter to Honorable Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security and Honorable
Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice (July 15, 2024).
13 Letters from Chairman Gary Peters and Ranking Member Rand Paul, Senate Committee on Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs, and Chairman Richard Blumenthal and Ranking Member Ron Johnson,
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, to Acting Director Ronald Rowe, U.S. Secret Service,
Department of Homeland Security (July 24, 2024), Director Christopher Wray, Federal Bureau of
Investigation, Department of Justice (July 24, 2024), Undersecretary Kenneth Wainstein, Office of
Intelligence and Analysis, Department of Homeland Security (July 24, 2024), District Attorney Nathan Bible,
Beaver County District Attorney’s Office (July 24, 2024), District Attorney Richard Goldinger, Butler County
District Attorney’s Office (July 24, 2024), Sheriff Michael Slupe, Butler County Sheriff’s Office (July 24,
2024), Acting Chief of Police Lt. Matthew Pearson, Butler Township Police Department (July 24, 2024),
Commissioner Colonel Christopher Paris, Pennsylvania State Police (July 24, 2024), Acting Director Ronald
Rowe, U.S. Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security (July 25, 2024); Clairton Sportsmen’s Club
(July 25, 2024); Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (July 25, 2024).
14 Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Secret Service, and Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of
Investigation, Briefing with Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Senate
Committee on the Judiciary (July 25, 2024).
15 Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Senate Committee on the Judiciary,
Examination of the Security Failures Leading to the Assassination Attempt on Former President Trump, 118th Cong.
(July 30, 2024) (S. Hrg. 118-XX).
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