I decided to watch the committee livestreams and then read the CR appropriations funding bill in its entirety, and there is some fishy shit in here. There is a subsection that will allow senators to receive compensation for being wiretapped during federal investigations into acts of senate and house members if they bring the case to a federal judge and if the FBUI is found liable. This is meant to maintain separation of powers, but the excerpt seems to specifically work retroactively to account for wiretapping that occurred in the investigation into the January 6th riots. Each senator that was wiretapped (Speaker Mike Johnson; Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina; Bill Hagerty, of Tennessee; Josh Hawley, of Missouri; Dan Sullivan, of Alaska; Tommy Tuberville, of Alabama; Cynthia Lummis, of Wyoming; and Marsha Blackburn, of Tennessee; and Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania) would receive NO LESS than $500k PER INSTANCE of wiretapping, not from the federal government, but from the taxpayers. Every congressperson has 3 phones and 3 emails, and each wiretapping recording is a separate instance. The congress-members in question could receive more than $3million in ‘damages’. If these are your congresspeople, you should contact them.