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Texas Senator Ted Cruz got into a heated exchange with acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. this week during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Donald Trump assassination attempt in Butler, PA earlier this month.

“I believe that the Secret Service leadership made a political decision to deny these requests. And I think the Biden administration has been suffused with partisan politics,” Cruz said. “Did the same person who denied the request for additional security to President Trump also repeatedly deny the requests for security to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose father was murdered by an assassin and whose uncle was murdered by an assassin? Did the same person make that decision?”

“Senator, what I will tell you is that Secret Service agents are not political,” Rowe responded.

“I have a simple question: yes or no. Did the same person deny the Trump request that also denied the RFK request? That’s a yes or no question,” Cruz asked.

“Senator, that is not a yes or no question. One, there’s a process for a candidate nominee to receive protection,” Rowe responded. “That is a bicameral, bipartisan process.”

“Does the buck stop anywhere?! Does the buck stop anywhere?!” Cruz fired back.

Cruz asked Rowe Jr. about Secret Service whistleblowers who said there were limited resources to protect Trump due to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Washington, D.C, and First Lady Jill Biden’s campaign rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

“What was the relative size of the Trump detail compared to the detail that is assigned to the President and the First Lady?” Cruz asked later in the hearing.

“Senator, the former president travels with a full shift, just like the president,” Rowe Jr. said, adding “On the day of, in Butler, the agents surrounding him, it is the same number of agents surrounding the president today.”

Cruz continued to press Rowe Jr. for refusing to provide clear answers.

“Sir, you are refusing to answer straight,” Cruz said. “Sir, stop interrupting me. Stop interrupting me. You are refusing to answer clear and direct questions. I am asking the relative difference in the number of agents between those assigned to Donald Trump and those assigned to Joe Biden. I’m not asking why you assign more to Joe Biden.”

Watch the heated exchange below: