BREAKING: Secret Service head Kimberly Cheatle resigns after congressional grilling over Trump assassination attempt

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has resigned following mounting pressure for her to do so and a congressional hearing held on Monday. It comes after the USSS failed to properly protect Donald Trump from an assassination attempt on July 13. 

According to two sources who spoke to ABC News, the director has resigned. During the hearing, Cheatle avoided and dodged questions related to the assassination attempt and the various security failures that took place at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally. 

In a letter to USSS for her resignation Cheatle wrote, "As I stated in the hearing yesterday, all of you are worthy of trust and confidence. You deserve the nation's support in carrying out our critical mission. One of my favorite things about this workforce is that the men and women are fiercely committed to our mission.”

The hearing led to a bipartisan call from both Republicans and Democrats to have her step aside from her post at the USSS. In a letter signed by both Rep. James Comer (R-KY) and Jamie Raskin (D-MD), it read: "Today, you failed to provide answers to basic questions regarding that stunning operational failure and to reassure the American people that the Secret Service has learned its lessons and begun to correct its systemic blunders and failures."

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