The report highlights significant failures in the planning, execution, and leadership of the Secret Service and its law enforcement partners. The Task Force-approved report also proposes 37 actionable recommendations related both to the security failures on July 13 and to overarching structural changes the Secret Service and Congress must consider strengthen security measures and prevent similar security failures in the future. 

Speaker Mike Johnson issued the following statement after the bipartisan House Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump released their final report:

“The House assigned the bipartisan Task Force with three goals: understand what went wrong on that tragic day that killed an American patriot and almost cost President Trump his life, ensure accountability, and prevent such an agency failure from ever happening again.

“Over the past five months, the Task Force has worked diligently to achieve these goals. Their investigation found that the Secret Service’s failures in planning, execution, and leadership in Butler, Pennsylvania extended beyond the events of that day and revealed a culture in desperate need of reform.

“It is now incumbent on Acting Director Ronald Rowe to enact as many of the 32 recommendations made by the Task Force as possible, and for Congress to review the five legislative recommendations. Moving forward, Congress will work with the incoming Trump Administration to make these changes to significantly improve the security apparatus of the President, Vice President, and all its protectees. We can never again experience such a dangerous and deadly security failure.”

Read the final report, with all 37 recommendations here.