House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said Thursday that Democrats will not help GOP leaders with a procedural vote to advance legislation extending the government’s surveillance powers, The Hill reports.
Nineteen conservative Republicans joined forces with all House Democrats on Wednesday to sink a rule governing a bipartisan proposal to renew a controversial section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as well as several other Republican messaging bills.
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