New spending fight: Secret Service funding

• "I don't think it's a funding issue," House Speaker Mike Johnson said today on Fox News. "President Trump needs the most coverage of anyone. He's the most attacked. He's the most threatened."
• "I don't know that it's a money issue," Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who is running to be GOP leader, told reporters.
• "We need a really transparent, fulsome investigation to figure out exactly what are the shortcomings and what's being done so far," said Senate Minority Whip John Thune, another one seeking the Republican top spot.

News: The Biden administration has asked Congress to let the Secret Service spend more cash faster during the next spending stopgap, according to people familiar with the matter.

• No one's coughing up the exact number.
• Homeland Security was the only appropriations bill to not clear the Senate Appropriations Committee this summer, in part because senators wanted more time to scrutinize the budget for Secret Service.