Future Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that he will fire the Senate’s Sergeant-at-Arms for failure to protect the chamber during Wednesday’s attack by domestic terrorists once Democrats formally taking control of the Senate later this month, Politico reports.
“If Senate Sergeant-at-Arms [Mike] Stenger hasn’t vacated the position by then, I will fire him as soon as Democrats have a majority in the Senate,” Schumer said in a statement to POLITICO.
It is unknown if the House Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving will face the same fate after insurrectionists breached the floor of both chambers as Congress debated Arizona’s Electoral College slate of electors.
The House Sergeant-at-Arms is also under scrutiny for failing to act when a fight nearly broke out on the floor of the House last night between Republican Andy Harris, an anesthesiologist who represents Maryland’s 1st District, and former NFL linebacker and the Democratic Representative for Texas’s 32nd District Colin Allred.