{"id":21412,"date":"2026-04-16T13:46:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-tries-again-on-spy-powers-vote-amid-gop-rebellion\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:46:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:46:42","slug":"johnson-tries-again-on-spy-powers-vote-amid-gop-rebellion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-tries-again-on-spy-powers-vote-amid-gop-rebellion\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson tries again on spy powers vote amid GOP rebellion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson will try again Thursday to push the House to extend an imperiled spy powers law after GOP resistance forced him to punt a vote Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is scheduling a procedural vote for 3:15 p.m. and final passage around 5 p.m. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/04\/15\/house-gop-delays-action-on-fisa-extension-00874777\" target=\"_blank\">told POLITICO late Wednesday<\/a> that he believed negotiators needed \u201ca few more hours\u201d to wrap up discussions on a potential compromise with conservatives concerned about U.S. citizens being caught up in government surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Talks between White House officials and House GOP hard-liners are ongoing, and there&#8217;s no deal yet, according to five people granted anonymity to discuss negotiations. Those people said an agreement by Friday seems more likely at this point and it&#8217;s possible Johnson has to delay the vote again ahead of the Monday expiration.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is racing to close out the internal GOP battle as President Donald Trump demands an 18-month extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker needs to send the FISA extension to the Senate before the Monday deadline, leaving barely any time for the Senate to act and threatening a rare weekend session.<\/p>\n<p>The House ultraconservatives opposed to the clean spy powers extension are trying to hash out an amendment involving warrant requirements, drawing on language from a measure by Louisiana Republican Rep. Clay Higgins.<\/p>\n<p>White House officials, mindful of the ongoing Department of Homeland Security shutdown, are also trying to finalize an agreement so they can tackle a party-line immigration enforcement bill and end the funding lapse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson will try again Thursday to push the House to extend an imperiled spy powers law after GOP resistance forced him to punt a vote Wednesday. Johnson is scheduling a procedural vote for 3:15 p.m. and final passage around 5 p.m. He told Blue Light News late Wednesday that he believed negotiators needed \u201ca few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}