{"id":22098,"date":"2026-04-30T19:32:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-approves-fisa-punt\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T19:32:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:32:05","slug":"senate-approves-fisa-punt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-approves-fisa-punt\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate approves FISA punt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senators approved a 45-day extension of a key surveillance program by voice vote Thursday, just hours before it is set to lapse.<\/p>\n<p>The extension will give Congress until mid-June to work out a deal on a long-term reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which targets foreigners abroad but can sweep in communications involving Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The House is set to hold a vote Thursday afternoon to pass the extension and send it to President Donald Trump ahead of the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate\u2019s decision to do a short-term extension came after the House passed a three-year bill Wednesday but packaged it with a controversial digital currency provision that made it \u201cdead on arrival,\u201d according to Senate Majority Leader John Thune.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate has been working on its own three-year extension, and supporters of the surveillance program say more time is needed to finalize a longer deal. \u201cThis will allow additional time to do that,\u201d Thune said Thursday on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators approved a 45-day extension of a key surveillance program by voice vote Thursday, just hours before it is set to lapse. The extension will give Congress until mid-June to work out a deal on a long-term reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which targets foreigners abroad but can sweep in [&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-22098","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\/22098","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=22098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}