House GOP leaders are discussing a floor vote this week to condemn Vice President Kamala Harris over her handling of the border, according to three Republicans with knowledge of the talks who were granted anonymity to speak frankly about internal discussions.

While the resolution led by House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) isn’t guaranteed to come to the House floor, members were told it was a possibility during a closed-door Republican leadership meeting on Monday night. The decision ultimately rests with Speaker Mike Johnson.

Republicans plan to hammer Harris on the border until Election Day, with the party immediately looking for ways to ding the vice president after Biden’s bombshell drop-out announcement on Sunday.

Stefanik quickly announced the resolution after Biden’s announcement and subsequent support of Harris — marking one of the first legislative steps House Republicans are considering after the seismic shift in Democratic politics.

“I am introducing a resolution condemning Kamala Harris’ role as Joe Biden’s ‘Border czar’ leading to the most catastrophic open border crisis in history,” Stefanik wrote on X on Sunday.

During a private GOP leadership meeting Monday night, the message to members was that they were looking at a Thursday vote on the resolution, according to the third person familiar with the matter. Still, the timing is fluid.

Republicans will need near unity to get the resolution through the House — a frequent challenge for their slim majority. But it is likely to have a better shot than other anti-Biden and anti-Harris options floated by House conservatives, including passing a resolution calling for the 25th Amendment to be invoked against Biden or trying to impeach either of them.

The House is set to vote this week on establishing a bipartisan task force to investigate the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.

The resolution would establish an 11-member panel — six Republicans and five Democrats. It’s currently teed up to get a vote under suspension, meaning a higher passage threshold that will require Democratic help.

The move to establish the task force, which was added to the House’s weekly schedule on Sunday night, comes as multiple congressional panels have already teed up probes into the shooting. But Speaker Mike Johnson has indicated he wants to use the task force to focus the House’s efforts. He is expected to release additional details Monday.

The resolution would also require the task force to make a final report on its findings and legislative proposals no later than Dec. 13.

Much of the early congressional ire has been focused on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who will appear before the House Oversight Committee starting at 10 a.m. on Monday.

Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) will tell Cheatle when she appears before his panel that it is his “firm belief” that she should resign, according to excerpts of his opening statement obtained by POLITICO.

“However — in complete defiance — Director Cheatle has maintained she will not tender her resignation. Therefore, she will answer questions today from members of this committee seeking to provide clarity to the American people about how these events were allowed to transpire,” Comer will say, according to the excerpts.

It’s not just Republicans who are calling for her resignation. Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) became the first House Democrat to call for Cheatle’s resignation over the weekend, saying that “evidence coming to light has shown unacceptable operational failures” and that he has “no confidence” in Secret Service leadership if she stays.

Cheatle, according to excerpts of her own opening statement, will tell lawmakers that she takes “full responsibility for any security lapse” and will cooperate with congressional oversight and other investigations.

“We must learn what happened and I will move heaven and earth to ensure an incident like July 13th does not happen again. Thinking about what we should have done differently is never far from my thoughts,” she will add.

In addition to the Oversight hearing, House Homeland Security Chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.) is leading a bipartisan visit to the site of Trump’s rally on Monday. FBI Director Christopher Wray will testify before the House Judiciary panel on Wednesday, and the House is also expected to get a classified briefing this week.

Green on Monday said that Cheatle “has rightfully admitted the near assassination of a former president was a failure. She even said the buck stops with her.”

“For the good of this country, Director Cheatle must resign immediately,” he added.

Immediately after Joe Biden dropped the bombshell that he was dropping out of the presidential race, congressional Republicans started to openly call for him to resign from the White House now.

Speaker Mike Johnson said in forcing Biden off the ballot that “the self-proclaimed ‘party of democracy’ has proven exactly the opposite” and called for Biden to resign immediately.”

“If Joe Biden is not fit to run for President, he is not fit to serve as President. He must resign the office immediately. November 5 cannot arrive soon enough,” Johnson said in a statement.

Johnson argued that swapping Biden for Vice President Kamala Harris would do nothing to better their electoral prospects, calling her a “gleeful accomplice” for the administration’s policies.

“If Joe Biden can’t run for re-election, he is unable and unfit to serve as President of the United States. He must immediately resign,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), a member of House GOP leadership, posted on X.

GOP leadership in the House wasn’t alone.

“Doesn’t have the mental acuity or cognitive ability to run a political campaign but can serve for 6 more months as president? He should resign,” wrote Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.).

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who’s running to succeed Mitch McConnell as leader of the Senate Republican conference, echoed those calls in a statement.

“Let me be clear, if Joe Biden can’t run for re-election, he is not capable of serving as president for the next six months and needs to resign today,” Scott said. “While we welcome the news that one of America’s most destructive presidents will be denied a second term, it changes very little as to the stakes of this election.”

The head of the Senate GOP campaign arm, Montana’s Steve Daines, called on Biden to resign immediately.

“If Joe Biden is no longer capable of running for re-election, he is no longer capable of serving as President,” Daines said in a statement. “Being President is the hardest job in the world, and I no longer have confidence that Joe Biden can effectively execute his duties as Commander-in-Chief.”

Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.), chair of the largest House GOP caucus — the Republican Study Committee — echoed those calls, as well. Similar calls came from lawmakers including Sen. Markwayne Mullin (Okla.) and Rep. Carlos Gimenez (Fla.).

“If Joe Biden is unfit to be the Democrat nominee for president, he’s unfit to be president for the rest of his term,” Hern said. “For the good of the country, Joe Biden should resign immediately.”

The calls for Biden to resign, though prevalent, were not universal among congressional Republicans.

“I respect President Biden’s decision to act in the best interest of the country by stepping aside in the 2024 presidential election,” centrist Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who has said she cannot vote for Trump, said in a post on X.

During a visit Monday to the site of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, lawmakers climbed onto the roof used to open fire on the rally and later expressed deep doubts about official explanations for why Secret Service agents weren’t stationed there.

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has said agents weren’t put on the roof because the slope made it unsafe. But House Homeland Security members said they walked around on the roof Monday without difficulty.

“I can tell you that, just looking at the site, immediately there are things that just hit you, and the fact that those things weren’t covered is unacceptable, completely unacceptable,” Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) told reporters during the Butler, Pennsylvania, visit. “I was on that roof, the roof that the director said was really, really dangerous for Secret Service and other personnel to be on. I’m 70 years old. There’s nothing unsafe about that.”

Gimenez, a former SWAT team member, also posted a video on X that he recorded on the now-infamous roof.

“One thing’s for clear, it’s for sure: It’s way too close,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said after visiting the shooter’s vantage point. “You know, being up on the rooftop and looking at where the president was relative to the roof is so close for a sniper.”

McCaul also questioned why a counter-sniper team wasn’t stationed on a nearby water tower, which he said had a clear line of sight to where officials say Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, repeatedly fired an AR-15-style rifle, wounding Trump, killing one rallygoer and injuring several others.

With questions still swirling about why warnings to local police about the suspect were slow to reach Secret Service personnel, Homeland Security Chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.) said he learned Monday that local authorities were excluded from the Secret Service command posts for the July 13 rally, even though such officials had been granted that access at similar events in the past.

“Normally, the local law enforcement guys are allowed to sit in the Secret Service … control room,” Green said. “Today, the locals shared with us that they were not allowed to have anybody in there. So, that makes you want to dig a little further, right?”

Democratic members who joined in visiting the site of the Trump campaign rally in Butler expressed concern that campaigns had too much influence over the selection of event sites and appeared to be able to override security personnel despite complaints about logistical complexity.

“Who is in charge? Is it the Secret Service? Or is it the campaign?” asked Rep. Lou Correa (D-Calif.).

“I think there’s a lot of issues here that probably strongly suggested we never should have had the event here to start with,” added Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-Md.). “That doesn’t excuse the failures of the Secret Service that day. I think we definitely want to make sure we investigate those and get to the bottom of what happened. … I looked at all of the roofs that were around and my count was around 12 or so. And I just thought, maybe this isn’t the best place to have done this.”

As Democrats at the House Oversight Committee hearing back in Washington joined Republicans in calling for Cheatle’s resignation, the Democratic members on the Monday visit to western Pennsylvania stopped short of doing that.

“We [are] not quite through with all of the gathering of information,” the top Democrat on the Homeland Security panel, Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, said when asked whether he’d join calls for Cheatle to step down or be fired. “But we are not reluctant once, we gather it to make decisions, but we want to make sure we have all the information.”

Top House Oversight Democrat Jamie Raskin told Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle that he believes she should resign, capping off an hourslong hearing into security failures surrounding the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

“I don’t want to add to the director’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day, but I will be joining the chairman in calling for the resignation of the director, just because I think that this relationship is irretrievable at this point,” Raskin (D-Md.) said, referring to Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.).

“I think that the director has lost the confidence of Congress at a very urgent and tender moment in the history of the country,” Raskin continued.

Comer earlier in the hearing called for Cheatle’s resignation: “We are concerned the Secret Service lacks the proper management to keep protectees safe from bad actors,” Comer said, adding that under Cheatle’s leadership, “we question whether anyone is safe.”

As he wrapped up the hearing, Comer said that he and Raskin would also be sending a letter requesting Cheatle’s resignation “as a step toward accountability in what happened.”

Cheatle defended her decision to stay in her position during the hearing. But she’s faced fierce, and growing, bipartisan criticism during the hearing as lawmakers vented frustration over her inability to answer several questions because investigations are still ongoing.

House Republicans have pulled two government funding bills scheduled for a floor vote this week, signaling further peril for leadership’s doomed efforts to pass all 2025 spending measures before the August recess.

Republicans’ funding bill for the Agriculture Department and the FDA, in addition to the Financial Services spending bill, will not be considered on the floor as originally planned, according to three sources familiar with the whipping problems.

Both measures failed to clear the floor last summer, thanks to politically unpalatable funding levels and conservative policy riders, including language blocking abortion and contraceptive protections. Those same issues are ensnaring GOP leaders yet again, despite an effort to dial back on some of the more controversial provisions that previously stymied floor passage.

GOP leaders still plan to put their Energy-Water and Interior-Environment funding bills on the floor in the coming days, and the House Rules Committee is expected to meet Monday afternoon on all four funding bills. But the prospects for passing the Agriculture-FDA and Financial Services bills next week, let alone Republicans’ remaining fiscal 2025 measures, are grim and looking increasingly unlikely.

There are three other bills with arguably even worse odds for floor passage, tentatively slated for floor action next week: Labor-HHS-Education, Commerce-Justice-Science and Transportation-HUD.

Rumors are already flying that GOP leaders might abandon their appropriations push altogether, leaving at the end of this week for August recess rather than stick around to sustain more self-inflicted spending wounds.

Top Republican appropriators decided last month to leave out controversial language blocking access to abortion pills in the funding measure that covers the FDA, after that language prompted opposition last year from several swing-district Republicans. The policy would have effectively overturned the FDA’s decision in early 2023 that allows mifepristone abortion pills to be sold at retail pharmacies and delivered by mail.

House GOP leaders have also heard conflicting demands over the contents of their financial services spending measure, which would block a D.C. law that prevents employers from discriminating against workers who seek contraception or family planning services.

That financial services measure divides House Republicans on cannabis policy as well — GOP appropriators nixed language that would have made it easier for financial institutions to serve certain cannabis businesses.

The decision to yank the Agriculture-FDA and Financial Services spending bills from the floor comes after the surprise failure of Republicans’ $7 billion Legislative Branch funding measure earlier this month.

That bill, which is the smallest out of a dozen annual appropriations bills, should’ve been an easy win for GOP leaders. But conservative consternation over a long-standing freeze on a cost-of-living pay raise for members of Congress, in addition to heightened funding levels, ultimately tanked the bill, with 10 Republicans joining Democrats to defeat the measure on the floor.

Meredith Lee Hill, Sarah Ferris and Jordain Carney contributed to this report.

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle told lawmakers on Monday that the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump was the agency’s “most significant operational failure” in decades, while also broadly laying out how it prepared for the rally.

Cheatle testified before the House Oversight Committee — her first public appearance before Congress since the July 13 shooting, where she is expected to face hours of fierce bipartisan criticism from a panel usually known for partisan disagreements.

Cheatle, in her opening statement to the committee, appeared to try to clean up previous remarks from public interviews since the shooting, telling the panel none of her previous comments “should be interpreted to place blame for this failure on our federal, state, and local law enforcement partners who supported the Secret Service” in Butler, Pennsylvania.

She also indirectly touched on one area she is all but guaranteed to get questions on: If the Secret Service denied requests to beef up Trump’s security detail. She offered broad details, which she is sure to get pressed on further, about how the event was planned.

“The level of security provided for the former president increased well before the campaign and has been steadily increasing as threats evolve,” Cheatle told lawmakers.

The Washington Post reported over the weekend that officials at the Secret Service turned down requests from Trump’s security detail for more resources and personnel in the two years leading up to the Pennsylvania shooting. Cheatle, during early questions from Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), said “no assets [were] denied for that event.”

“The assets that were requested for that day were given,” she said.

Cheatle on Monday also said that the Secret Service started planning for Trump’s rally shortly after it was announced, including “a full assessment of the Butler Farm Show Grounds to identify security vulnerabilities.” She added that after the shooting she also boosted Trump’s protective resources.

Cheatle’s acknowledgment of Secret Service failures likely won’t quash the bipartisan criticism she will face for hours. Underscoring the high-profile nature of the hearing, Speaker Mike Johnson was in the room as the hearing kicked off.

Comer kicked off the hearing telling Cheatle that she should resign.

“We are concerned the Secret Service lacks the proper management to keep protectees safe from bad actors,” Comer said, adding that under Cheatle’s leadership, “we question whether anyone is safe.”

Raskin said that the panel would be asking “hard questions” of Cheatle, while also calling the shooting a “double failure” and using his opening statement to make a broader push for new gun laws.