'Trainwreck': Republicans in meltdown mode as spy law engulfs party in chaos

House Republicans are in open disarray over a government surveillance law, and even their own leaders admit there's no clear path forward.

Speaker Mike Johnson was still on the House floor past 2 a.m. Friday after own party torpedoed his latest attempt to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the sweeping spy law that gives the government authority to monitor foreign targets, Politico reported Monday. Critics have said that everyday Americans are caught in the dragnet

Twenty Republicans voted against the procedural rule needed to advance it. Johnson called the collapse "nuances with the language," while Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles (R) called it something else: "A trainwreck."

The standoff is now threatening other Republican priorities. The party faces a June 1 deadline to deliver Trump's budget reconciliation bill, which would fund his immigration enforcement activities and restore funding to the Department of Homeland Security. FISA negotiations are now cutting into that timeline.

Adding to the complications, hard-liners are demanding a ban on central bank digital currency be attached to any spy law reauthorization — a demand Senate Majority Leader John Thune warned would cost Democratic votes needed to pass the bill.

Senate Republicans are now preparing their own contingency plans.

"I don’t know what the House is going to be able to do, and so we’ll be preparing accordingly," Thune said Friday.

Top House Democrat Jim Himes, who spent Friday night doing what he called "shuttle diplomacy" between Johnson and House Freedom Caucus members, delivered a telling verdict.

"What I learned tonight was that Republicans don’t talk to each other,” Himes said. “They sure as hell don’t talk to us — but they don’t even talk to each other.”