Scott Wong is a senior congressional reporter for NBC News.
WASHINGTON — A band of hard-right agitators, backed by former President Donald Trump, is threatening to block the renewal of a powerful surveillance program that is set to expire next week, throwing the GOP-led House into chaos once again.
an apparent reference to the FBI's bungled surveillance of former Trump aide Carter Page. 'We are killing FISA. As written, it won’t make it off the floor,' Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., wrote on X, responding to Trump. Two other Trump loyalists, Reps. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., also said they will vote no on the rule. 'We're throwing our Constitution and our Bills or Rights away with this history of abuse.
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