US Senate GOP not sold on $1B Secret Service ask

By: Jennifer Shutt, Ariana Figueroa

Outlets: DC Bureau (States Newsroom)

Published: May 12, 2026

Words: 864

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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WASHINGTON — Several Republican U.S. senators left a closed-door lunch with Secret Service Director Sean Curran on Tuesday saying they still have questions about how the agency would spend an additional $1 billion.

“I’ve asked for a lot more data,” said Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Susan Collins, R-Maine. “If there are needs for new training ranges, for example, that should have been in the president’s budget.”

Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, tucked the significant increase …

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