‘What we call mic drop’: Congresswoman’s dig after US Secret Service chief quits

US Representative Nancy Mace referred to the resignation of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle as a ‘mic drop’ as she took a dig at the officer. Cheatle quit the post amid criticism over the agency’s failure to avert an assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

In a post on X, she stressed accountability for the incident where a shooter fired eight rounds at the former US president during an election rally, injuring him.

“Accountability is non-negotiable,” Nancy Mace said.

The Representative also announced that she was withdrawing the motion to impeach the Secret Service Director, as the officer had already resigned.

“Strolling straight to the Speaker’s office. Now that Director Cheatle resigned after getting her rear handed to her yesterday and our articles to impeach her, we’re withdrawing our motion to impeach,” she wrote.

Mace and Cheatle had engaged in a heated exchange during a recent Congressional hearing, during which the Representative accused the Secret Service Director of being untruthful and described her as being “full of sh**”.

The Secret Service, which is responsible for the security of US political leaders, came under severe criticism after the assassination attempt at an election rally in Pennsylvania on July 13.

On July 23, Cheatle resigned as the head of the agency, taking “full responsibility” for the security lapse. During the Congressional hearing, she called the incident the “most significant operational failure” in decades.

Meanwhile, the US Department of Homeland Security has appointed an independent panel to conduct an extensive review of the planning and actions taken by the Secret Service and state and local authorities before, during, and after the Pennsylvania rally.