In “Congress Acknowledges It’s Lagging the Private Sector on Security” (Semafor, 22 September 2025), Brittney Blair comments on the current debate around where Congress should focus its spending as it responds to security threats for members of Congress. Pointing to the need for increased digital threat monitoring, Brittney noted that local law enforcement and private security guards typically lack the resources to conduct the kind of online monitoring many corporations implemented after the UnitedHealthcare shooting. “There’s no world where I think that we should give fewer resources to law enforcement,” she observed. “But that is not the end-all-be-all answer; it hasn’t been for a long time.”
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