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Trump signs 10-day FISA patch after House Republicans fail to deliver longer renewal

By Christopher Burroughs

President Donald Trump signed a 10-day extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Saturday, keeping the warrantless surveillance program alive through April 30 after House Republican leaders failed overnight to advance either a five-year rewrite or the clean 18-month renewal the White House had demanded.

The stopgap measure, cleared by the House shortly after 2 a.m. and passed by the Senate on a voice vote Friday morning, amounts to a Band-Aid on a deep intraparty wound. More than a dozen House Republicans blocked the five-year extension, and roughly 20 more joined most Democrats to reject the shorter clean bill, leaving Speaker Mike Johnson with no path forward on the legislation Trump wanted.

Congress now has until April 30 to produce a longer deal or let the authority lapse entirely. The episode exposed a familiar fault line: Republicans agree the intelligence community needs Section 702 to track foreign adversaries, but a vocal bloc refuses to reauthorize the program without a warrant requirement for FBI queries that sweep in Americans’ communications…

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