Jeffries: Democrats won’t help Johnson break FISA impasse

April 12, 2024

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that Democrats will not help GOP leaders with a procedural vote to advance legislation extending the government’s surveillance powers. 

Nineteen conservative Republicans joined forces with all House Democrats on Wednesday to sink a rule governing a bipartisan proposal to renew a controversial section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), as well as several other Republican messaging bills.