More than a year after a Secret Service counter sniper team killed a would-be assassin targeting President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, a report from the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General found the team faces "chronic understaffing." "The United States Secret Service's (Secret Service) Counter Sniper Team (CS) is staffed 73 percent below the level necessary to meet mission requirements," the inspector general's report says. "Failure to appropriately staff CS could limit the Secret Service's ability to properly protect our Nation's most senior leaders, risking injury or assassination, and subsequent national-level harm to the country's sense of safety and security." The Secret Service does not have an effective process to hire counter snipers, the IG found; all the

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