House Approves Three-Year Extension of FISA Section 702 Amid Bipartisan Vote and Senate Hurdles

Speaker Mike Johnson has worked for over a month to strike a deal with privacy hawks and members of the House Intelligence Committee on the Section 702 extension. Rep.

The House-passed deal does not include a warrant requirement for Section 702. The House-passed deal includes new oversight guardrails and penalties for abusing Section 702. The House agreed to a ban on central bank digital currency before sending the Section 702 legislation to the Senate.

Rep. Keith Self voted yes to reauthorize FISA because it includes significant new guardrails and a permanent ban on a CBDC. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said earlier this week that any FISA deal that attaches a ban on CBDC would be dead on arrival in the Senate.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said the Senate would likely pass a short-term 45-day extension of Section 702. Speaker Mike Johnson said the Senate knows exactly what the House is doing regarding an extension of Section 702.

The FISA program is set to expire on Thursday unless both chambers pass an agreement to extend it. House Speaker Mike Johnson, speaking at a news conference following a closed-door GOP meeting at the Capitol in Washington on April 21, 2026, emphasized the program's importance.

We cannot allow it to go dark," Johnson said. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, addressing reporters, reiterated the challenges.

He added that the Senate had communicated clearly to House leadership about the CBDC issue. Rep.

With FISA expiring tomorrow, this is a challenge to the Senate: will they finally pass legislation protecting our constituents from total federal surveillance of their finances or will they spit in the face of the American people and strip it out? The choice is theirs to make and I hope that they make the correct decision.

" Speaker Mike Johnson, responding to questions after the procedural rule passage, stated: "I speak with Leader Thune all of the time.

They’re watching this very closely, and hopefully they can process what we send them. " The program's authorization, vital for collecting intelligence on foreign adversaries including terrorists and spies, faces uncertainty as the deadline approaches. The bipartisan House vote saw Democratic support offsetting Republican defections in a chamber with a narrow majority.

The inclusion of the CBDC ban, demanded by GOP holdouts, emerged as a key concession to secure passage.