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FISA reauthorization markets crash on Senate deadlock

Congressional gridlock over surveillance program extension crushes long-term authorization odds.

Markets are pricing in Congressional dysfunction as FISA Section 702 faces Thursday's midnight expiration deadline. The House passed a three-year extension, but Senate Majority Leader John Thune called the bill "very, very hard" to pass due to an attached central bank digital currency ban that's a "poison pill" in the upper chamber.

With the surveillance program set to expire at midnight Thursday, traders have abandoned bets on longer-term extensions. Markets for 90+ day authorization collapsed from 65¢ to 7¢, while 2-year odds fell from 48¢ to 3¢. The Senate will likely pass a short-term clean extension and send it back to the House, extending the legislative stalemate on privacy reforms that have divided both parties for two decades.

Market data sourced from Kalshi. Odds reflect prices at time of analysis and may have changed.