Two committees called Butler preventable. Nobody was fired. The agency got $1.17 billion — bonuses included.

The finding, in one paragraph: the two most thorough public investigations of the near-assassination of a former president — one by a bipartisan House task force, one by the Senate's homeland security committee — reached the same verdict in the same word, preventable, and documented the same institutional pattern: a protective detail that asked for the assets whose absence later defined the failure, a headquarters that denied or ignored at least ten of those requests, and an after-action machinery that, one year on, has fired no one.▸ The financial system's response is equally documented: eleven months and three weeks after Butler, the agency received a $1.17 billion supplemental appropriation whose authorized uses include, by name, performance bonuses.

Four documents, read directly.▸ The House record is the Final Report of the Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump (December 5, 2024, 180 pages) — the "preventable and should not have happened" finding, the decision-point analysis, and 36 recommendations. The Senate record is the HSGAC final report (Chairman Rand Paul, July 2025) — built on 17 transcribed interviews and 75,000 pages of records, the source of the denied-requests count and the discipline ledger. The money is Public Law 119-21, Section 100057, read verbatim on govinfo, along with the same law's separate fund reimbursing local police for protecting presidential residences.

The House task force reconstructed the decision points: the American Glass Research complex — elevated, 150 yards out, clear sight lines to the stage — was left outside the secure perimeter with no clear assignment of responsibility; local snipers inside the AGR building understood their job as watching the crowd, not the roof over their heads; counter-drone technology was down for hours; the radio nets never merged, so the suspicious-person reports climbing the local channels reached no one who could pull the protectee.▸ Inexperienced personnel held key advance-planning roles for a higher-risk outdoor venue — with, the report notes, specific intelligence of a long-range threat. The Senate's contribution is the antecedent: headquarters had denied or left unfulfilled at least 10 requests from the detail for exactly such assets — counter-snipers, counter-assault personnel, enhanced drone detection — and the committee accuses the then-director of "falsely" testifying that "no USSS asset requests were denied for the Butler rally."

Set the two congressional documents against the statute Congress passed between them.▸ The Senate's findings section opens its accountability discussion flatly: "Not a single person has been fired." The six who were disciplined received, in the committee's judgment, "penalties far too weak to match the severity of the failures" — two were reduced further on review — and the details were withheld from the committee until the chairman issued a subpoena. The same Congress, eleven days before the Senate report's release, enacted Section 100057: $1,170,000,000 to the Secret Service director, available through 2029, for "additional... personnel, training facilities, programming, and technology" — and for "performance, retention, and signing bonuses for qualified United States Secret Service personnel." Both chambers' investigators concluded the agency misallocated what it had (the House: Congress should ask whether the Service protects too many people and does too much investigating; the Senate: the assets existed and were withheld from the detail). The appropriation answers a different question than the reports asked: it supplies more of everything, to the same management structure, with explicit authority to pay bonuses inside an agency where the investigated failure produced no terminations. None of these documents contradicts another on facts — the tension is that they share them.

The second anniversary is Monday.▸ The $1.17 billion runs through September 2029, and its spending — how much to bonuses, how much to the counter-drone and communications gaps both reports documented — is reportable in DHS budget justifications going forward. The House task force's structural questions (the protectee list, the investigative mission) sit with the committees of jurisdiction. The Senate report's discipline findings are now the baseline: any further personnel action, or none, is measurable against a public count that currently reads six and zero.

All quoted findings are read directly from the House task force final report, the Senate HSGAC final report, and Public Law 119-21. Day counts computed from document dates. The suspension details (six personnel, without pay, of varying lengths) were confirmed by the Secret Service in July 2025 and are consistent with the Senate report's discipline count.