Kimberly Cheatle, the former director of the U.S. Secret Service, resigned in disgrace last year amid controversy over her agency's failure to prevent the attempted assassination of then-former President Donald Trump at an outdoor campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Reports now indicate that the new leadership of the Secret Service has decided to halt the renewal process for Cheatle's top-level security clearance, according to the New York Post.

That decision to prevent Cheatle's security clearance from being renewed was reportedly prompted, at least in part, by the objections of multiple congressional Republicans, including Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who led a committee probe last year into the Secret Service's combination of failures under Cheatle's leadership that resulted in the assassination attempt against Trump.

Cheatle's security clearance will not be renewed

RealClearPolitics reported on Friday that the Secret Service was moving ahead with the typically routine renewal of former Director Cheatle's top-level security clearance when the agency then "reversed course" after it was asked about the opposition to doing so from congressional Republicans.

The outlet noted that security clearances typically maintained for all former directors of federal intelligence agencies, including the Secret Service.

An unnamed Secret Service spokesperson explained that the clearances were kept current for ex-officials, like Cheatle, "so the agency can maintain formal and protected communication, including potentially sensitive and classified matters with former officials."

"Since appointed, Director [Sean] Curran has been building a dynamic team of knowledgeable advisors that will help implement his vision for the agency," the spokesperson said. "Additionally, Director Curran has been modernizing the intelligence apparatus within the agency. During that process, he has determined that not all former directors need to have their clearances renewed."

GOP senators pushed for non-renewal of Cheatle's security clearance

Leading the Republican charge against former Director Cheatle maintaining her top-level security clearance with the Secret Service was Sen. Johnson, according to RCP, who led a Senate investigation last year that documented multiple failures under leadership that contributed to the agency's inability to fully protect President Trump from harm.

"Following the security debacle in Butler, the former director of USSS made the right decision to resign," the senator told the outlet. "I see no reason for her security clearance to be reinstated."

Also commenting on the decision to not renew Cheatle's security clearance was Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), who also took part in last year's investigation of the agency's many failures to keep the former president and GOP nominee safe, and told RCP, "Kim Cheatle disgraced the Secret Service by failing to prevent a horrifying attempt on President Trump’s life."

"Not only did she oversee one of the greatest security failures in our nation’s history, but she also stonewalled congressional oversight and ran away from my colleagues and me when we confronted her," Blackburn added. "Under no circumstances should she be allowed to regain her security clearance, and it is shameful she would even try."

Cheatle accused of lying under oath during Senate testimony

Separately, Fox News reported that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), on the one-year anniversary of the Butler assassination attempt last month, accused former Director Cheatle of lying under oath during her testimony to the Senate, when she denied credible allegations that she had denied repeated requests from then-former President Trump's detail, led at that time by Curran, for additional resources and support.

In a statement issued by her attorney, however, Cheatle pushed back against that accusation, and said, "Any assertion or implication that I provided misleading testimony is patently false and does a disservice to those men and women on the front lines who have been unfairly disciplined for a team, rather than individual, failure."

RCP noted that no criminal referral for perjury has been suggested yet by Sen. Paul or Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chair of the House Oversight Committee, but a spokesman for Comer said the committee "will respond" if it uncovered "stark evidence of an intentional effort to deceive" or a "purposeful effort to mislead" Congress.