House hard-liner headaches ahead
Published on March 17, 2026.
House Republicans are facing multiple challenges in the upcoming two weeks, including a revolt from conservatives over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) extension and the housing bill. The House is facing a two-week sprint to make significant legislative progress before a two week recess. The White House supports this approach, but conservatives want to add additional privacy guardrails to the existing law that allows the government to collect data of noncitizens without a warrant. House Speaker Mike Johnson can only afford to lose one Republican on party-line procedural votes without disrupting floor operations. Hard-liners are also challenging a Senate-passed affordable housing package, which they believe does not contain key policies they fought for. Some hard-line Republicans have threatened to oppose any bill passed by the Senate until the SAVE America Act is approved.
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