Jason Pye

Scoop: The House will NOT vote next week on a FISA extension, as GOP leaders had hoped GOP leaders are pushing the vote instead to the week of April 14 and will work with GOP hardliners still opposed to the clean extension and warrantless surveillance over the upcoming recess. The FISA reauthorization deadline is April 20 and this leaves barely any time for the Senate to act. text subscribers got this first

lol… not an ideal moment for Markwayne Mullin here as Senators question him about his “super secret mission”

Donald Trump was overwhelmingly elected by the American people to be our President and Commander in Chief. As our Commander in Chief, he is responsible for determining what is and is not an imminent threat, and whether or not to take action he deems necessary to protect the safety and security of our troops, the American people and our country.  The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is responsible for helping coordinate and integrate all intelligence to provide the President and Commander in Chief with the best information available to inform his decisions.  After carefully reviewing all the information before him, President Trump concluded that the terrorist Islamist regime in Iran posed an imminent threat and he took action based on that conclusion.

Speaker Johnson: "My plan is to move a clean extension of FISA...It expires in April (19) and we're looking at that deadline and hoping that we can get a clean authorization for at least 18 months."

Hassett: "If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now."