The FISA bill was never actually NOT gonna be re-approved , as it has been done even by Donald Trump, who signed the last ok for the bill in 2018..
Trump DOES NOT want the bill approved now….
He has no love lost with the US Intelligence Community which NEVER trusted him during his time as President….
He is NOT the only person as questions about the program and its scope….
There is work still going on the fine print….
Lawmakers KNOW America CANNOT go without having the bill’s capabilities….
House Speaker Johnson found away to get the bill voted on by cutting the approval time from every 5 years to every 2 years…..
The House took a critical first step on Friday toward reauthorizing a law extending an expiring warrantless surveillance law that national security officials say is crucial to fighting terrorism, voting to take it up two days after a previous attempt to pass it collapsed.
Grasping to salvage the measure before the law expires next week, Speaker Mike Johnson put forward a shorter extension — two years instead of five — in a move that appeared to win over hard-right Republicans who blocked the bill earlier this week.
On a party-line vote of 213 to 208, the House agreed to take up the new version of the legislation, which would extend a section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act known as Section 702. That cleared the way for a debate Friday on proposed changes to the bill before a final vote on passage.
The preliminary vote on Friday suggested that the measure was back on track after former President Donald J. Trump implored lawmakers this week to “kill” FISA, complaining that government officials had used it to spy on him. Should it pass the House, the Senate would still have to clear it, sending it to President Biden for his signature….
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“Senate Republicans vented their frustration after former President Trump helped derail a compromise House bill to extend Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act authority, sending lawmakers scrambling to find a Plan B to keep the nation’s intelligence agencies from losing their ability to spy on adversaries and terrorists,” The Hill reports.
“Republican senators are warning that the nation’s spy program is about to go ‘dark’ and that much of the intelligence that goes into President Biden’s daily briefing could be lost, putting the nation at risk for surprise attacks.”