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Senate Republicans early Friday could not muster enough votes to move forward on a long-term reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, leaving the key surveillance power,
A procedural vote failed in the Senate early Friday, and a provision of the spy powers law is set to expire June 12.
By Nolan D. McCaskill and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) - Seven Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Friday joined Democrats to block debate on reauthorization of an expiring foreign surveillance law.
Congress left town this week after the Senate passed Republicans’ high-priority budget reconciliation package for immigration enforcement, while Democrats saw a war powers messaging win in the House.
The roughly $70 billion bill to fund US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol was delayed for weeks as Republican senators navigated the various obstacles to passage.
What happened during the 18-hour vote-a-rama on the immigration enforcement package?
President Donald Trump declined to commit to permanently scrapping a controversial $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund on Wednesday, injecting fresh uncertainty into the Senate’s effort to pass $70 billion in new immigration enforcement funding.