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House passes Senate DHS funding bill after Johnson reverses course on 76-day shutdown standoff

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Congress took a major step toward ending the record-breaking Department of Homeland Security shutdown on Thursday as the White House warned hundreds of thousands of federal employees were on the verge of missing paychecks amid the 76-day funding lapse. The House of Representatives approved by voice vote … Read more

House passes Senate DHS funding bill after Johnson reverses course on 75-day shutdown standoff

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Congress took a major step toward ending the record-breaking Department of Homeland Security shutdown on Thursday as the White House warned hundreds of thousands of federal employees were on the verge of missing paychecks amid the 75-day funding lapse. The House of Representatives unanimously approved a Senate-passed … Read more

House passes FISA renewal in bipartisan vote, putting pressure on Senate before looming deadline

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Congress passes short-term FISA 702 extension Fox News chief congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports on the 13-day FISA extension. Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., discusses the measure and Virginia’s controversial redistricting vote on ‘Fox Report.’ NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Congressional Republicans are racing to extend a controversial spying program before it is … Read more

Florida Legislature passes redistricting plan creating four additional GOP-leaning House seats

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis got his maps. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. State lawmakers on Wednesday passed redrawn congressional lines that create an additional four GOP-leaning seats in Florida, making it the eighth state to complete mid-decade redistricting in the 2026 election cycle — and … Read more

Senate passes budget plan for ICE and Border Patrol in bid to reopen Homeland Security

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WASHINGTON — The Senate took the first steps in a new effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security early Thursday, voting to adopt a budget plan that would fund ICE and Border Patrol over Democratic objections and sending it to the House. The entire department has been shut down since mid-February as Democrats have … Read more

Judge blocks Virginia from using new congressional maps, 1 day after redistricting vote passes

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A state court judge on Wednesday blocked Virginia from moving forward with a redistricting effort that passed in a referendum a day earlier, a roadblock in Democrats’ efforts to redraw the state’s congressional maps and tilt as many as four House districts away from the GOP.   The order from Judge Jack Hurley of Tazewell … Read more

Senate passes short-term extension of overseas spying authority

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The Senate gave final passage to a short-term extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, on Friday. The measure is a controversial spy authority that allows U.S. intelligence services to collect communications of non-American citizens outside of the U.S. CBS News’ Nikole Killion reports. Source link

Senate passes short-term FISA extension, following House in maintaining surveillance law through April 30

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Washington — The Senate on Friday passed a short-term extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA, by unanimous consent, hours after the House passed the short-term extension of the law after 2 a.m. Friday.  The extension through April 30 pushes back the expiration date of the controversial warrantless surveillance … Read more