House Majority Leader Steve Scalise called for Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign after former President Donald Trump was shot and slightly wounded during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday. 

The shooting was bad enough, but Scalise's main reason for the demand was Cheatle's lack of transparency and responsiveness about the incident.

“I think she should,” Scalise said at the RNC convention in Milwaukee, when asked if Cheatle should step down. “I’ve been very disappointed in her lack of candor.”

“You got to take the tough questions,” he added.

Intense questioning

The Secret Service has faced intense questioning about how the shooter was able to get close enough to hit Trump without being noticed by them or law enforcement, but so far Cheatle has tried to avoid answering public questions.

Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, shot Trump and three others at the rally, one of whom has died. Crooks was then shot to death by law enforcement.

“I’ve been very frustrated with the lack of information, I think the Secret Service head should’ve been out publicly right away,” Scalise said Tuesday.

While Cheatle has postponed a hearing before Congress, she did give an interview to ABC News.

"The buck stops with me"

She said the shooting was "unacceptable," adding, “it’s something that shouldn’t happen again.”

“The buck stops with me,” she added. “I am the director of the Secret Service, and I need to make sure that we are performing a review and that we are giving resources to our personnel as necessary.”

Cheatle stopped short of saying she would step down, however. "I do plan to stay on,” she said.

Despite her words of taking responsibility, Cheatle said that the building's sloped roof prevented Secret Service and law enforcement from clearing it before the rally.

Rally-goers who saw Crooks on the roof before the shooting had to tell law enforcement he was there.

A member of local law enforcement climbed up to the roof to confront Crooks before the shooting, but he had to back off because he was unable to draw his weapon.