Senate Eyes Short-Term FISA Fix as CBDC Clash Stalls Longer Renewal

With Section 702 expiring, the Senate is considering a roughly 45-day extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act after House Republicans attached a longer renewal to a permanent ban on a Federal Reserve central-bank digital currency. Senate Majority Leader Thune says a 45-day fix is likely but requires all 100 senators’ support, while Sen. Wyden plans a three-week extension and declassification of the 702 opinion. The House-passed three-year extension is unlikely to clear the Senate as-is and the CBDC ban is viewed as dead on arrival there, even as lawmakers juggle farm bill and immigration funding fights that complicate the spy-power renewal.