House lawmakers are getting a boost to funds they can use for their own security, including at their homes.
Speaker Mike Johnson and House Administration Committee Chair Bryan Steil announced an “updated Member security framework” at the closed-door House GOP conference meeting Tuesday morning.
It comes in response to growing member demands for protection when they are outside the highly-securitized Capitol grounds, as the U.S. grapples with persistent and escalating political violence.
Those calls only increased after the June shootings in Minnesota that killed a state representative and her husband; wounded a state senator and his wife; and…
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