House approves short-term extension of surveillance law in blow to Republicans’ long-term plan – US politics live
The decision to extend a warrantless security law until 30 April came after 20 Republicans worked with House Democrats to defeat attempts to pass five-year and 18-month renewalsSign up for the Breaking News US emailIn more House news, the House…
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The decision to extend a warrantless security law until 30 April came after 20 Republicans worked with House Democrats to defeat attempts to pass five-year and 18-month renewals
In more House news, the House voted yesterday to pass a bill to continue the temporary protection status for Haitian immigrants, a designation that allows them to live and work in the US without fear of deportation.
As The Guardian’s Chris Stein writes, the vote was a rare bipartisan rebuke of Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda enabled by a small group of Republican defectors, with the 11 members of the House Republican conference joining with the Democrats to pass the bill 224 to 204.
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