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Trump suffers rare defeat with House Republicans
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Trump suffers rare defeat with House Republicans

AxiosΒ·Kate SantalizΒ·6 months ago
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The House GOP revolt on FISA Friday wasn't just a setback for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) β€” it was a rare defeat for President Trump with his own party.

Why it matters: Trump usually delivers House Republicans on big votes. This time he couldn't β€” exposing the limits of his influence and leaving Johnson exposed.

Charging ahead on a clean extension of Section 702 was a White House call, but some of Trump's closest allies refused to budge on long-held beliefs around the national security tool.

More than two dozen Republicans voted down two separate procedural votes early Friday morning β€” once unheard of for members in the majority, but now an increasingly common tactic .

That failure left GOP leaders with no choice but to fall back on a 10-day extension of the spy powers program, their last-resort option.

Driving the news: The White House, in tandem with GOP leadership, mounted an intense pressure campaign to convince holdouts to come on board.…

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