**Kimberly Cheatle**, the Director of the **US Secret Service**, resigned on Tuesday, a day after admitting that the agency failed to prevent an assassination attempt on **Donald Trump**.

Cheatle faced bipartisan calls to step down after a 20-year-old gunman wounded the former Republican president and current White House candidate at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.

**Mike Johnson**, the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, told reporters, 'It is overdue, she should have done this at least a week ago.

I’m happy to see that she has heeded the call of both Republicans and Democrats.

'**President Joe Biden** thanked Cheatle for her nearly three decades in the Secret Service and said she had 'selflessly dedicated and risked her life to protect our nation throughout her career.

' Biden added, 'We all know what happened that day can never happen again.

As we move forward, I wish Kim all the best, and I will plan to appoint a new director soon.

'Cheatle appeared before a congressional oversight committee on Monday and said the attack on Trump, who was slightly wounded in his right ear, represented a failure by the Secret Service.

Both Republicans and Democrats called on Cheatle to resign during a tense hearing.

She drew the ire of lawmakers from both parties by refusing to provide specific details about the attack, citing the existence of multiple active investigations.

The gunman opened fire on Trump with an AR-style assault rifle just minutes after he began speaking at the campaign event.

Perched on the roof of a nearby building, he was shot dead by a Secret Service sniper less than 30 seconds after firing the first of eight shots.

Investigators have concluded the young man, who lived in a town about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Butler, acted alone and have not been able to identify any strong ideological or political leanings.

Two rally attendees were seriously wounded in the attack, and a 50-year-old Pennsylvania firefighter, **Corey Comperatore**, was shot dead.

Trump’s former physician said over the weekend that the Republican candidate sustained a two-centimeter (almost one inch) gunshot wound on his right ear.

'The bullet passed, coming less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head, and struck the top of his right ear,' said ex-White House physician **Ronny Jackson**.

Cheatle served as a Secret Service agent for 27 years before leaving in 2021 to become the head of security in North America for **PepsiCo**.

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