Amid all the chaos that came with the ousters of Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), House Speaker Mike Johnson suffered a major embarrassment.
In the late hours of Thursday evening into the early hours of Friday, his bid to pass a clean reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act failed. That happened despite Donald Trump — whom Johnson is loath to disappoint — having called for a “clean 18-month extension.”
