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or to be risked getting expelled.
And there's only been six members in congressional history who have ever been asked to leave.
That's correct.
So two-thirds of the House of Representatives would need to vote to expel a member.
This has only ever happened six times before in history.
However, not everyone is fully convinced that expulsion is the best route.
Mike Johnson has pointed out in the past before that past expulsions have been members of the Confederacy and people who were convicted fraudsters or other crimes.
And so there's a very high historical bar for this.
So over the break, the House did agree, at least Speaker Mike Johnson agreed, that they would pass the Senate deal, which did not include funding for ICE or Border Patrol.
But in exchange for that, it will be potentially a reconciliation bill process that we could see play out to fund those agencies.
And that's something that the president wants to see to his desk by June.
Republicans certainly have some non-starters in terms of the demands Democrats have made when it comes to ICE.
Daily Wire immigration reporter Jenny Ter has been tracking this.
In terms of other legislation that we're looking at, we could also be seeing a vote soon on the renewal of FISA.
That is a foreign government surveillance bill that is very hotly debated, especially by people who might be concerned about how this implicates the privacy of American citizens as well as advocates who want to see perhaps more warrants in this process.
Representative Ana Paulina Luna even floated a couple weeks ago
tacking on the Save America Act, which is that big voter identification bill, getting that in there.
Meanwhile, the president wants a clean 18-month extension of that policy.
But in terms of other stuff we could be seeing from Congress, Chuck Schumer is going to be pushing again for a war powers resolution on Iran.