Senate to jam House with FISA extension that excludes digital currency ban

The Senate is thumbing its nose at a House-passed extension of a government surveillance program over the attachment of a central bank digital currency ban included by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) as part of a deal with conservative holdouts. Instead, the upper chamber plans to move forward on Thursday with a clean extension of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which will last several weeks and does not include the digital currency attachment. The Senate plans to send the clean extension back to the House and then leave Washington for more than a weeklong recess.

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