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Mike Johnson Used Crypto Catnip to Get Freedom Caucus Support for Domestic Spy Law

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Mike Johnson Used Crypto Catnip to Get Freedom Caucus Support for Domestic Spy Law
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Far-right Republicans in the House, including many members of the Freedom Caucus, revealed the price of their support for a controversial surveillance law this week: a ban on the unrelated and hypothetical possibility that the U.S. government might one day issue digital currency.



Twenty Republicans who opposed a procedural vote earlier this month flipped their position on Wednesday to allow a vote on a three-year extension of the law that allows government agents to search Americans’ communic

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