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House Approves Three-Year FISA 702 Renewal Without Warrant Rule

Senate resistance to the CBDC rider could force a short-term fix before the April 30 deadline.

Speaker Mike Johnson in the House Chamber on April 28. Photo: Kylie Cooper/Reuters/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Rep. Zach Nunn arrives for Britain's King Charles III address to a Joint Meeting of Congress in the House Chamber at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, April 28.
The badge of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is embroidered on a polo shirt of an ICE employee, at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement two-day job fair in Texas to help fill vacancies for deportation officers and attorneys, in Arlington, Texas, U.S. August 26, 2025. REUTERS/Shelby Tauber

Overview

  • House lawmakers voted 235-191 on Wednesday to reauthorize Section 702 for three years without adding a warrant requirement and with a permanent ban on a central bank digital currency.
  • The bill passed with 42 Democratic votes offsetting 22 Republican defections after GOP leaders flipped multiple holdouts, following a separate 216-210 rule vote that packaged FISA with the farm bill and a DHS budget plan.
  • Senate Republican leader John Thune said any renewal that carries a CBDC ban is dead on arrival, and NBC reported senators are working on a 45-day extension as the program’s authority reaches Thursday’s deadline.
  • Section 702 lets U.S. agencies collect communications of foreign targets overseas, but it can pull in messages from Americans who contact them, and critics want the FBI to get a judge’s warrant before searching those U.S. messages.
  • A parallel fight over farm bill language on E15 fuel sales and pesticide liability stalled a vote to start reopening the Department of Homeland Security, highlighting the same narrow House math that shaped the FISA deal.