Hakeem Jeffries rules out help from Democrats to salvage FISA bill

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks during his weekly news conference on Capitol Hill, Feb. 7, 2024, in Washington. The House Democratic leader on Thursday said his troops won’t come to House Speaker Mike Johnson’s aid to salvage a bill to reauthorize the government’s chief spying powers.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries had a curt answer when asked by a reporter if Democrats would help advance the bill that was derailed Wednesday or if Mr. Johnson had reached out to him about it.A contingent of 19 Republicans and 209 Democrats voted to block the bill that would renew the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s Section 702 which allows the U.S. to intercept electronic communication of foreigners abroad but sometimes scoops up American’s data.

Typically, lawmakers in the minority party do not vote in favor of advancing legislation from the majority party. Despite members on both sides of the aisle proselytizing on the national security implications that allowing FISA to sunset would have, Democrats did not break from Washington’s partisan status quo.

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