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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., has succeeded in rallying his slim majority around controversial measures involving surveillance, immigration enforcement funding, and agricultural policy, successfully leading passage of the bills on Thursday.

The House voted by voice Thursday to pass the Senate’s measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security, sending the bill to President Donald Trump’s desk to end a record-long partial government shutdown. The House will recess after Thursday for a week.

On Wednesday night, after days of struggling to come to a deal, the House passed a resolution unlocking the process of budget reconciliation, allowing Republicans to fund immigration enforcement without needing Democrat votes in the Senate.

In order to do so, Republican leadership had to overcome some rank-and-file members’ complaints about a piecemeal approach to funding the Department of Homeland Security, in which Republicans would fund the agency’s non-immigration responsibilities in a separate bipartisan bill.

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, an opponent of the piecemeal approach, explained to reporters why he did not demand a recorded vote on Thursday.

“If there was a vote, I would’ve voted no,” he said. “But we weren’t going to win that vote, so we decided to let it pass by voice vote.”

Roy has argued that leaving immigration funding outside of the typical bipartisan process risks a partisan targeting of funding in the future.

Final Touches

House Republicans also overcame bitter disagreements in passing a three-year extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. 

A faction of Republicans had for weeks demanded major reforms to the espionage program to prevent the surveillance of American citizens.

Leadership ultimately won them over with warrant reforms, as well as a prohibition on the development of a central bank digital currency—something privacy hawks have long argued could be used as a potential surveillance tool.

The future of the House FISA bill is uncertain in the Senate, and the surveillance authority expires at midnight.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has said the House’s FISA bill is “dead on arrival” in the Senate due to the central bank digital currency ban.

Senate Republicans are attempting to advance a 45-day FISA extension.

The House would have to fast-track this bill under a process known as “suspension of the rules” with a two-thirds vote in order to meet the deadline.

This is usually forbidden on Thursdays and Fridays, but the House Rules Committee, a leadership-controlled panel, voted to make an exception this week in a resolution that passed on Thursday.

Johnson said after the DHS vote that the Senate should pass the House’s FISA bill to “check the last box,” saying they “don’t seem to have another alternative.” 

Farm Bill

Johnson’s other success was passing a massive farm bill by a 224-200 margin to revamp agricultural policy and provide assistance to farmers ahead of the midterm elections.

Several members initially objected to elements in the bill, prompting Republicans to set up several amendment votes on subjects of disagreement before the farm bill ultimately passed.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., for example, objected to language blocking state regulations of pesticide companies, and her amendment changing this provision passed 280-142.

Midwestern Republicans, hoping to score a win with corn farmers in their districts ahead of midterms, demanded that leadership work with them to build a regulatory environment more friendly to ethanol-blended gasoline, which is often derived from corn.

Thune has indicated the Senate wishes to proceed with its own farm bill.

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President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he is withdrawing his surgeon general nomination for the second time.

Trump announced the nomination of Dr. Nicole B. Saphier, a radiologist and director of breast imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth, replacing “Make America Healthy Again” nominee Dr. Casey Means. Before Means, Trump had nominated Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for the role before withdrawing her nomination.

“I am pleased to announce that I am nominating Dr. Nicole B. Saphier to be the next SURGEON GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Nicole is a STAR physician who has spent her career guiding women facing breast cancer through their diagnosis and treatment while tirelessly advocating to increase early cancer detection and prevention, while at the same time working with men and women on all other forms of cancer diagnoses and treatments.”

“She is also an INCREDIBLE COMMUNICATOR, who makes complicated health issues more easily understood by all Americans,” Trump added.

In a separate post, Trump slammed Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who held up Means’ nomination. The president said he hopes Louisianans vote Cassidy out of office.

“For months, Senator Bill Cassidy (of the GREAT State of Louisiana!), a very disloyal person whose ‘TRUMP’ Endorsement got him elected, but later voted to impeach ‘President Trump’ on what has now proven to be a total Hoax and Scam, has stood in the way of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Nominee, Casey Means, for the important position of U.S. Surgeon General,” Trump said.

Trump said he nominated Means, a “strong MAHA Warrior,” at the recommendation of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy.

“Nevertheless, despite Senator Cassidy’s intransigence and political games, Casey will continue to fight for MAHA on the many important Health issues facing our Country, such as the rising childhood disease epidemic, increased autism rates, poor nutrition, over-medicalization, and researching the root causes of infertility, and many other difficult medical problems,” he said. “Casey, thank you for your service to our Nation!”

Trump told The Daily Signal on March 29 he was considering withdrawing Means’ nomination.

“Something like that would be possible,” he said.

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“Dr. Casey Means has spent her entire career as an entrepreneur, bestselling author, and researcher bringing attention to America’s chronic disease epidemic and how our healthcare system is failing the American people,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at the time.

The Southern Baptist Convention raised concerns about Means’ past use of illicit drugs, as detailed in her book “Good Energy,” and her lack of commitment in her confirmation hearings to limit the abortion pill.

Means stood out as one of the few public figures willing to take a stance against the birth control pill, saying it is prescribed “like candy” and reflects a “disrespect of things that create life.”

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