Senate rejects House’s FISA bill, pitches 45-day extension ahead of looming deadline

The Senate scrapped the House’s reauthorization of the nation’s controversial spying powers and is instead moving on a temporary extension to the program.

Senate Majority LeaderJohn Thune,R-S.D.

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“We’ll kick it over there and process it quickly, and we’ll kick the can down the road again,” Thune said.

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The maneuver comes after the House on Wednesdaypassed a three-year extensionto the program with modest reforms that included a ban on central bank digital currencies — a priority of conservatives in the lower chamber.

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., talks to reporters before entering the Senate chamber in Washington, D.C., on Jan.5, 2026.(Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

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But the inclusion of that provision was a nonstarter in the Senate, given that it was unrelated to the underlying bill and was already baked into a housing affordability package passed by the Senate in March that the House has yet to move on.