A little-noticed provision buried in the bill that reopened the federal government has fractured Republicans, pitting House leaders against Senate colleagues and injecting new tension into 2026 primary battles.
The measure — signed by President Donald Trump last week — lets any U.S. senator sue for at least $500,000 if federal investigators sought their phone records without prior notification.
Applied retroactively to 2022, it could hand 10 GOP senators sizable payouts stemming from subpoenas issued during special counsel Jack Smith’s Arctic Frost probe into efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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