House Advances Revised FISA Reauthorization Bill; Biden to Forgive $7.4B More in Student Loan Debt

The House advanced a modified version of a bill on April 12 to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). With the passage of the rule governing the bill—an intermediate procedural step before final passage—the bill itself will now be teed up for a vote on the House floor later on Friday.

The Biden administration announced another expansion of the federal student debt relief program on Friday, declaring the cancellation of $7.4 billion in student loans for some 277,000 Americans. This initiative, unveiled on April 12, marks another move in the administration’s efforts to cancel student debt, totaling $153 billion in canceled debt for 4.3 million beneficiaries since President Joe Biden took office.

A top adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci secretly messaged a zoologist who funneled money from Dr. Fauci’s agency to a laboratory in the Chinese city where the first COVID-19 cases appeared, according to newly disclosed emails.