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一项关键的美国监控程序即将到期,此前众议院民主党人和一批保守派人士否决了一项临时延期法案,导致围绕总统唐纳德·特朗普提名的情报负责人人选陷入僵局。
议员们周四以198票对218票的结果将《外国情报监控法》(FISA)第702条的延期期限延长三周,但远未达到通过法案所需的三分之二多数票。
这项旨在让国会有更多时间谈判长期续约的法案,在民主党普遍反对的情况下举步维艰。众议院少数党领袖、纽约州民主党人哈基姆·杰弗里斯警告称,在特朗普撤销任命比尔·普尔特尔担任代理国家情报总监的决定之前,他将不会支持延长该程序。
众议院议长迈克·约翰逊(路易斯安那州共和党人)通过暂停议事规则将该法案提交全院表决,这一快速程序需要更高的投票门槛才能通过。
众议院议长迈克·约翰逊(路易斯安那州共和党人)于2026年6月10日在华盛顿特区美国国会大厦举行的宣誓就职仪式前对媒体发言。(蒂尔尼·L·克罗斯/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社)
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约翰逊表示,在这部间谍法定于周六凌晨12点01分到期前,他不会让众议院休会。
“我曾试图推动一项为期三周的短期延期法案,这是一项无附加条件的延期,未对法律做出任何修改,”投票失败后约翰逊对记者表示,“但民主党人……投了反对票,离开会场时还为自己鼓掌。我一遍又一遍地做这种事有什么意义?”
众议员贾里德·戈尔登(缅因州民主党人)、玛丽·格卢森坎普·佩雷斯(华盛顿州民主党人)、唐·戴维斯(北卡罗来纳州民主党人)、文森特·冈萨雷斯、亨利·奎利亚尔(德克萨斯州民主党人)、苏西·李(内华达州民主党人)和约什·戈特海默(新泽西州民主党人)这7名民主党人跨党派投票支持将该程序延期至7月2日。
与此同时,19名共和党人因质疑在未增设更严格隐私保护措施的情况下无附加条件重新授权第702条,与大多数民主党人一道投票否决了该法案。
周四的投票对特朗普来说是一次显著的挫折,此前他敦促议员们在6月12日的截止日期前重新授权该程序,不做任何修改。
民主党人和一些共和党人认为,作为特朗普亲信和高级住房官员的普尔特尔,并不胜任这一最高情报职位。
特朗普一直在为普尔特尔辩护,拒绝向民主党人的要求让步。他周三表示,他正在积极寻找普尔特尔的永久继任者,后者预计将于6月19日上任,但这并未缓解民主党人的反对态度。
围绕这一关键监控工具的僵局导致众议院内部紧张局势升级,而距离该法律到期已所剩无几。
杰弗里斯本周早些时候在新闻发布会上称普尔特尔是“恶性小丑”,并承诺如果民主党在11月夺回众议院多数席位,将对普尔特尔在联邦住房金融局的任期展开调查。作为该局局长,普尔特尔曾针对多名特朗普政敌发起涉嫌抵押贷款欺诈的调查。
与此同时,共和党人警告称,随着世界杯期间大量外国游客涌入美国,以及与伊朗的战争持续进行,任由这部间谍法到期将使美国面临独特的脆弱性。他们辩称,民主党人未能将该程序延期至7月,将把国家置于严重的安全风险之中。
“45个国家的民众将齐聚美国观看世界杯赛事,而民主党人恰恰选择在这一周阻挠这项关键的国家安全工具延期,使其陷入失效,”众议院情报委员会主席、阿肯色州共和党人里克·克劳福德周三表示,“国会民主党人的这种行为极不负责,非常危险。”
“你不能拿美国人民的安全玩政治把戏,”约翰逊对记者表示,“我祈祷他们能醒悟过来。”
众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯(纽约州民主党人)发誓反对短期延长FISA授权,除非唐纳德·特朗普总统撤销任命比尔·普尔特尔监督美国情报事务的决定。(塞缪尔·科勒姆/盖蒂图片社;斯特凡尼·雷诺兹/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社)
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第702条程序允许美国政府收集使用美国通信系统的境外外国人的情报。该间谍法还允许政府在与外国嫌疑人通信时,顺带收集美国人的信息,这引发了两党中隐私保护鹰派的不满。
该程序因挫败2024年奥地利泰勒·斯威夫特演唱会的恐怖袭击阴谋而闻名,同时还帮助收集情报以识别并击毙一名墨西哥主要贩毒集团头目,并提供情报截获了来自中国的 fentanyl 前体化学品 shipments。
国会今年早些时候两次通过了该法律的短期延期法案,但尚未就多年期的解决方案达成协议。
一些民主党人认为,共和党人的警告是政治作秀,并指出情报法院的一项裁决已将第702条的认证有效期延长至2027年3月。
“即使没有国会的重新授权,现有法律也允许FISA法院的命令下继续开展第702条的情报收集工作,期限还剩一年,”参议院少数党党鞭、伊利诺伊州民主党人迪克·德宾周三表示,“国会可以而且必须花时间妥善处理此事。”
威廉·普尔特尔,联邦住房金融局局长,于2026年4月22日在华盛顿特区联邦住房金融局总部的新闻发布会上发言。(埃里克·李/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社)
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但共和党议员警告称,允许政府的无证搜查监控权力到期将带来巨大风险,包括可能引发法律诉讼。
“如果这项授权从周六起失效,我们将进入未知领域,”克劳福德周三表示,“其影响每天都在恶化。”
他补充道:“虽然702数据库仍可用于搜索,但其中的数据将日益过时,可能出现服务提供商不遵守命令、服务提供商或外部团体提起诉讼,甚至情报机构人员因担心个人责任而不愿继续执行已失效的授权等情况。”
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Spy program credited with stopping Taylor Swift terror plot barrels toward expiration
June 11, 2026 10:37am EDT / Fox News
The critical spy program FISA Section 702 expires Saturday as Republicans warn of security risks during World Cup
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A key U.S. surveillance program is on the brink of expiring after House Democrats and a group of conservatives sank a temporary extension amid a standoff over President Donald Trump’s intelligence chief pick.
Lawmakers voted 198-218 on Thursday to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for three weeks, falling well short of the two-thirds majority needed for passage.
The measure, meant to give Congress more time to negotiate a long-term renewal, faced an uphill battle amid widespread Democratic opposition. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., warned he would withhold support for extending the program until Trump reversed his decision to name Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., put the bill on the floor via suspension of the rules, a fast-track procedure that requires a higher threshold to secure passage.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, speaks to members of the media before a swearing-in ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on June 10, 2026.(Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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He indicated he would not keep the House in session before the spy law was scheduled to lapse Saturday at 12:01 a.m.
“I attempted to pass a short-term extension for three weeks. Clean extension, no changes to the law,” Johnson told reporters following the failed vote. And the Democrats … voted against it and applauded themselves as they left the building. What would be the point of me going through this exercise over and over?”
Reps. Jared Golden, D-Maine, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., Don Davis, D-N.C., Vicente Gonzalez and Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, Susie Lee, D-N.V., and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., were the 7 Democrats to cross party lines and support extending the program through July 2.
Meanwhile, 19 Republicans, who were skeptical of a clean reauthorization of Section 702 without greater privacy guardrails, joined the majority of Democrats in voting down the measure.
Thursday’s vote was a notable setback for Trump, who urged lawmakers to reauthorize the program ahead of the June 12 deadline with no modifications.
Democrats and some Republicans have argued that Pulte, a Trump insider and senior housing official, is unqualified for the top intelligence post.
Trump has largely defended and refused to bow to Democrats’ demands. His comments Wednesday that he is actively looking for a permanent replacement for Pulte, who is expected to begin the job June 19, were not enough to soften Democrats’ opposition.
The standoff over the critical surveillance tool has led to tensions erupting in the lower chamber with little time to act before the law’s expiration.
Jeffries called Pulte a “malignant clown” during a news conference earlier this week and pledged that House Democrats would probe his tenure at the Federal Housing Finance Agency if they retake power in November. As the agency’s director, Pulte launched investigations into several Trump foes over alleged mortgage fraud.
Meanwhile, Republicans have warned that letting the spy law sunset would leave the United States uniquely vulnerable amid an influx of foreigners into the country with the World Cup underway and as the war with Iran drags on. They argue that Democrats are putting the country at a grave security risk by failing to extend the program into July.
“45 countries descend upon the United States for World Cup games, which just so happens to be the week that Democrats have actively chosen to disallow this critical national security tool from being renewed to allow it to go dark,” House Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford, R-Ark., said Wednesday. “This is unserious, very dangerous behavior on the part of congressional Democrats.”
“You cannot play politics with the security of the American people,” Johnson told reporters. “I am praying that they come to their senses.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., vowed to oppose a short-term FISA extension until President Donald Trump reversed course on tapping Bill Pulte to oversee the nation’s intelligence services.(Samuel Corum/Getty Images; Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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The Section 702 program allows the U.S. government to collect intelligence on foreigners abroad who are using U.S. communication systems. The spy law also allows the government to sweep up the messages of Americans when communicating with foreign suspects, provoking the ire of privacy hawks in both parties.
The program is credited with thwarting a terrorist attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Austria in 2024, as well as gathering intelligence used to identify and eliminate a prominent Mexican cartel leader and providing information used to intercept shipments of fentanyl precursors from China.
Congress passed two consecutive short-term extensions of the law earlier this year, but has yet to strike a deal on a multi-year fix.
Some Democrats have argued Republicans’ warnings are political theater and have pointed to an intelligence court ruling that recertified Section 702 through March 2027.
“Existing law allows Section 702 collection to continue under an order from the FISA court for another year, even without congressional reauthorization,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Wednesday. “Congress can and must take the time to get this right.”
William Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, speaks at a news conference at FHFA headquarters in Washington, D.C., on April 22, 2026.(Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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But GOP lawmakers warned that allowing the government’s warrantless surveillance powers to sunset entails substantial risk, including potential legal challenges.
“If this authority lapses starting on Saturday, we move into uncharted territory,” Crawford said Wednesday. “The implications get worse every single day.”
“While the 702 database would remain available to search, the data in that database will become increasingly out of date, with the potential of provider noncompliance with orders, litigation by providers or outside groups, and even reticence by agency personnel to continue implementing an expired authority for fear of personal liability,” he added.
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