The senators will be informed by the police on Tuesday about security after the murder of a legislator of Minnesota and her husband and the wound of another and his wife on Saturday.
The Republicans of the House of Representatives held a telephone conference, which was described as “tense”, on Saturday with the sergeant of the House of Representatives of ARMS and the Capitol Police of the United States to discuss their concerns, multiple sources familiar with the call to ABC News said. Several Republicans said in the one -hour call that they feel insecure in their national districts and want more protection, the sources said.
The key source of dispute in particular was the request of the police outside their homes at all times and the authorities of application of the law that say they need more funds from the congress to provide that.
The senators will be informed by the Sergeant of the Senate of the Arms and Capitol Police on Tuesday morning, two family sources told ABC News, after it was requested by the leader of the majority, John Thune, and the leader of the minority Chuck Schumer.
The Police establishes a security perimeter near the residence of the Democratic state assemblyman Melissa Hortman after Hortman and her husband, Mark, were shot dead earlier in the day, in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, on June 14, 2025.
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The camera’s Democrats are expected to have a similar call in the next few days. The minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, said in a statement on Saturday that he asked the Arms and Capitol Police Sergeant to “guarantee the security” of the Minnesota delegation and the members of Congress “throughout the country.”
While camera leadership and the Senate receive a security detail, rank and file members are not routinely protected unless there is a specific threat.
The Senator of Minnesota, Amy Klobuchar, told ABC News “This Week” on Sunday that political violence is a “unbridled problem.” The senator of Minnesota, Tina Smith, told NBC News on Sunday: “I don’t want to think that I have to have a personal security detail everywhere, but I think we really have to look at the situation we are in.
“This is not a way for our government to work when people, any number of us, feel this type of threat,” he said.
Representative Jared Moskowitz said he could force a vote in a “secret session” in the camera to discuss security And so that “members can handle this ourselves.”
The bullet holes mark the main door of the senator of the state of Minnesota, John Hoffman, who was shot with his wife, Yvette, in what is believed to be an attack by the 57 -year -old suspect Vance Luther Boelter, who is also the main suspect in the shooting deaths of the state -owned state of democratic Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, Mark Champlin, Minn., June 14, 2025. 2025.
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Vance Boelter, 57, faces multiple federal positions for the murder of the State Democratic Representative of Minnesota, Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and hurting the state -owned Senator Democrat John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in “political murders,” said the United States prosecutor for the Minnesota Joseph Thompson district on Monday.
In an affidavit of 20 pages, prosecutors described how they say Boelter “embarked on a planned campaign of harassment and violence, designed to inflict fear, hurt and kill members of the Minnesota state legislature and their families.” He allegedly had firearms and a list of 45 elected officials, “mostly or all democrats,” according to prosecutors. The authorities say that Boelter traveled to the houses of at least four public officials during the morning hours of Saturday before the murders.
Michigan’s Democratic representative, Hillary Scholten, postponed an event of the City Council on Monday after learning that “in a list related to the recent tragic shooting in Minnesota.”
“As a precaution and not divert the additional laws of the law to protect the broader public at this time, this is the responsible choice,” Scholten said in a statement.
The number of threats and “statements about” against the members of Congress, their families and the staff has increased during the last two years, According to the Capitol Policewhich pointed out that threats tend to increase during the years of the elections. The Capitol Police Threat Evaluation Section investigated 9,474 threats and statements in 2024 and 8.008. Investigated 3,939 cases in 2017.
Isabella Murray and John Parkinson from ABC News contributed to this report.
