Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Tuesday that former President Donald Trump is receiving a level of Secret Service protection that is “quite approximate” to that of President Joe Biden, according to Politico.

During a panel at the Politico AI and Tech Summit, Mayorkas also said the Secret Service did “phenomenal work and they deserve to be commended for it” in its response to an apparent assassination attempt against Trump at his Florida golf course Sunday. 

Mayorkas, who as DHS secretary, oversees the Secret Service, noted that the U.S. is seeing “a heightened threat environment” against federal, state, and local public officials, as well as increased threats against places of worship and schools.

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