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.β¦