The House task force investigating the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump began its work on Monday by requesting documents and briefings from top Justice Department and Homeland Security officials. 

Task force chair Mike Kelly (R-PA) and ranking member Jason Crow (D-CO) sent letters to Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe demanding all documents related to the assassination attempt. They requested that the departments set up briefings with the task force by August 16 to coordinate the investigation. 

The letters, obtained by Punch Bowl News, request that the officials “produce documents and information directly to the Task Force from this point forward, including any documents and information that are in process in response to pending requests.”

The task force was established last month with seven Republicans and six Democrats. Several committees in both the House and Senate have already begun looking into the attack that left Trump and two of his supporters injured and one rally attendee dead. 

In addition to Kelly, other Republican lawmakers on the task force include Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) and Reps. David Joyce (R-OH), Laurel Lee (R-FL), Michael Waltz (R-FL), Clay Higgins (R-LA),  Pat Fallon (TX). Democrats include Reps. Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), Glenn Ivey (D-MD), and Jared Moskowitz (D-FL).

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said that the task force would have subpoena authority and be handling all House inquiries into the Trump rally shooting. His office said that the panel’s goals are to “understand what went wrong on the day of the attempted assassination,” “ensure accountability,” and “prevent such an agency failure from ever happening again.”

There are still questions about who was responsible for the security failures at the July 13 Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Former President Donald Trump said on Monday that Vice President Kamala Harris was attempting to con the American public by shifting her positions on border security and copying his proposal to remove taxes on tips.

Harris made headlines over the weekend after she said she would eliminate taxes on tips if elected president at a rally in Las Vegas, a policy first proposed by Trump two months ago. 

“Kamala Harris has flip-flopped on virtually every policy she has supported and lived by for her entire career, from the Border to Tips, and the Fake News Media isn’t reporting it,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Monday. “She sounds more like Trump than Trump, copying almost everything. She is conning the American public, and will flip right back. I will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! There will be no flipping!!!”

Trump first proposed stopping taxing tips in June, also at a rally in Las Vegas.

“So this is the first time I’ve said this, and for those hotel workers and people that get tips, you’re going to be very happy because when I get to office, we are going to not charge taxes on tips, on people making tips,” Trump said at the rally. “And I think it’s going to be something that is deserved — more importantly — popular or unpopular, I do some unpopular things too, if it’s right for the country, I do what’s right.”

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Trump also ripped into Harris’s recent narrative that she is tough on border security. One of her new ads claims that she supported “the toughest border control bill in decades” and refers to her as a “border state prosecutor.”

“Kamala Harris was put in sole charge of the Border,” Trump said on Monday. “It quickly became the WORST AND MOST DANGEROUS BORDER IN HISTORY. As President, Harris will completely DESTROY OUR COUNTRY!”

Republicans have pushed back, pointing to the record number of illegal immigrants who have entered the country during the Biden-Harris administration and her reported role as Biden’s “border czar.”

Trump currently maintains a narrow lead in five of the seven key battleground polls, according to the most recent average of polling. Harris has narrow leads in both Wisconsin and Michigan.