Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee is calling for a full audit of "every single employee" on the Secret Service payroll, and frankly the only shocking thing about this story is that nobody demanded it sooner.

Two assassination attempts on President Trump. TWO. And we're just now getting around to checking if everyone cashing a Secret Service paycheck is actually doing their job? Outstanding work, everyone.

As reported by Just The News, Blackburn isn't asking for a polite review. She isn't requesting a "study" that'll take 18 months and conclude with a suggestion for a follow-up study. She's demanding a full reckoning — every single employee, top to bottom, no exceptions. That's the kind of language Washington hasn't heard since the last time someone actually meant what they said.

Let's remember how we got here. A gunman got on a rooftop within rifle range of President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The Secret Service's response was so catastrophically incompetent that a former president took a bullet to the ear on live television. Then there was a SECOND attempt. And after all of that, the agency's leadership gave us the bureaucratic equivalent of "mistakes were made" and expected everyone to move on.

We didn't move on. Blackburn isn't moving on.

The Tennessee senator is applying the most basic principle of management that exists: if your team fails spectacularly — twice — at its ONE job, you audit the team. You find out who's there, what they're doing, and whether they're qualified to do it. This isn't radical. This is what every business owner in America does when things go sideways.

But Washington doesn't operate like a business. Washington operates like a government agency — which is to say, badly, slowly, and with zero accountability for failure. People get promoted after disasters. Budgets increase after catastrophes. The worse you perform, the more resources you get. It's the only industry where incompetence is a growth strategy.

Blackburn is signaling that Republicans aren't done applying pressure on agency accountability. Good. Because the American people watched their president nearly get murdered — on camera — and the agency responsible for preventing exactly that has yet to provide a satisfactory explanation for how it happened.

"Every single employee." Not "senior leadership." Not "the field office involved." Every. Single. One.

That's not an audit request. That's a reckoning. And it's about two assassination attempts too late.