Rep. Ritchie Torres (DN.Y.) on Tuesday introduced a bill requiring the Secret Service to expand its covered perimeter to take into account the range of high-powered automatic weapons following the attempted assassination of former President Trump .
Torres’ bill requires the agency to “ensure that any security perimeter is coextensive with the firing range of firearms that could be used in assassination attempts,” covering a radius of at least 500 meters.
The legislation also requires coverage of any elevated position within this range.
The bill comes exactly one month after gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks shot Trump from a rooftop about 150 meters from the stage where the former president was speaking, piercing his ear, injuring two other people and killing a man .
Torres also introduced legislation Monday that would strip the Secret Service of responsibility for investigating financial crimes, part of its original mission when the agency was founded in 1865.
The financial crimes division would be transferred to the Treasury Department under Torres’ legislation.
Torres, the day after Trump’s shooting, also announced plans alongside Rep. Mike Lawler (RN.Y.) to demand heightened security for Trump, President Biden and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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