Secret Service Director Says GOP Sequestration Left Them Down 550 Employees [View all]

[deminks]

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/09/30/secret-service-director-gop-sequrestration-left-500-employees.html

In the House Oversight Committee hearing which started Tuesday on the problems in the Secret Service as it has failed repeatedly to protect the First Family, the Secret Service blamed the sequestration budget cuts for cuts in staffing.

Bloomberg News writer Del Quentin Wilber tweeted:


.@SecretService Pierson: #sequestration hurt staffing. Down 550 employees due to budget cuts.

— Del Quentin Wilber (@DelWilber) September 30, 2014

(snip)

Republicans tried to blame President Obama for the sequester after it turned into a political disaster, but the discovery of a 2011 PowerPoint presentation that Speaker John Boehner gave to Republicans detailing his sequester idea killed that mid deployment. The White House has had a plan on the table since December of 2012 to deal with sequestration to no avail.

(snip)

While sequestration is not the only reason for the terrifying failures of the Secret Service to protect the First Family, it does take money to run things. It takes money to pay good people– a concept that Republicans tout when it excuses Wall Street bonuses in the millions while refusing to raise the minimum wage.

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Something I am assuming won't be in the MEdia's account. They are all too busy with the Congress Critters' soundbites.