Sen. Ron Johnson is advancing a renewed investigation into last year’s attempted assassination of President Trump, authorizing a subpoena to compel the FBI and Justice Department to release documents he says have been withheld.
As chair of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Johnson expressed frustration with what he called a lack of cooperation and transparency from federal agencies.
The move follows last year’s preliminary bipartisan report, which blamed preventable Secret Service failures for the July 2024 shooting at Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania rally. That report, co-authored by Johnson, was conducted under Democratic leadership and concluded that lapses in planning, communications, and resource allocation directly contributed to the breach. But Johnson now says that report was only a first step, and he’s continuing the investigation with or without bipartisan support.
“I’d like our report to be bipartisan,” Johnson said, “but everybody else seems to have been moving on. I’m not.” He emphasized that if fellow committee leaders join, “great,” but that he has the authority to issue subpoenas on his own—and intends to use it.
