Mike Johnson Used Crypto Catnip to Get Freedom Caucus Support for Domestic Spy Law ^76.5%

The Intercept - By Matt Sledge - 4/29/2026, 10:02 PM

Negativity Bias 14.6% - Biased Writer Voice 11.7% - Availability Heuristic 9%

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... more