Anonymous pizza deliveries add to lawmakers’ safety fears
Federal authorities try to find out who has been anonymously ordering pizzas which might be despatched to the houses of U.S. lawmakers throughout the nation and to the houses of those that assist defend these lawmakers.
The mysterious deliveries have authorities frightened that they may very well be meant to ship a menacing message, in accordance with congressional sources and others acquainted with the matter.
Both Democrats and Republicans within the House have acquired the unsolicited pizza deliveries, in accordance with House Speaker Mike Johnson’s workplace. Pizzas additionally have been despatched to present and former management of the U.S. Capitol Police, sources mentioned.
"These recent pizza deliveries are troubling and yet again, bring to light the heightened threat landscape we are living in," the Capitol Police mentioned in a press release to ABC News. "Violence and threats, of any type, focused at elected officers is not going to be tolerated.”
The Capitol Police mentioned they’re "working with our federal, state, and local partners to address the matter."