Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz rebuked acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. on Tuesday for not answering his questions.

Rowe testified during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump after U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle recently resigned her role following her own evasive testimony before Congress. Cruz accused the acting director of not directly answering questions about decision-making in the agency and the number of agents Trump has compared to President Joe Biden.

"I believe that the Secret Service leadership made a political decision to deny these requests. And I think the Biden administration has been suffused with partisan politics," Cruz said. "Did the same person who denied the request for additional security to President Trump also repeatedly deny the requests for security to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose father was murdered by an assassin and whose uncle was murdered by an assassin? Did the same person make that decision?"

"Senator, what I will tell you is that Secret Service agents are not political," Rowe responded.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did not receive Secret Service protection from Biden until after the Trump assassination attempt, despite requesting it beforehand.

Cruz asserted the leadership Biden appointed is "political."

"I have a simple question: yes or no. Did the same person deny the Trump request that also denied the RFK request? That's a yes or no question," he said.