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The House Oversight Committee is asking the Federal Protective Services, which provides security to approximately 9,000 federal facilities, for information about how it is protecting federal employees in light of the increase in threats against its workforce.
The uptick in threats follows the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act.
Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, a New York Democrat, and Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, a Massachusetts Democrat and subcommittee chairman, lay out in a letter to Federal Protective Service Director L. Eric Patterson their belief that the rhetoric from Republican leaders has contributed to a sharp increase in threats to federal employees nationwide.
“We are alarmed that leaders in the Republican Party have promoted false conspiracy theories and fueled violent threats against federal workers, putting the lives of law enforcement officials and other patriotic public servants at risk,” Maloney and Lynch write.
Following the search of Mar-a-Lago, Maloney and Lynch say that Trump and Republican members of Congress “have made reckless statements demonizing federal law enforcement officers and even hinting at possible violence.”
The letter cites a recent speech from Trump where he called the Justice Department and FBI “vicious monsters” and cautioned that the criminal investigation being conducted over the removal of classified documents to Mar-a-Lago “is going to produce a backlash the...
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