Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared before Congress today for the first time since the Iran war began. The hearing focused on the Trump administration's $1.5 trillion military budget proposal for 2027. Democrats, like Pennsylvania Democrat Chrissy Hulahan, used the opportunity to grill

Hegset on the Iran war's costs, President Trump's shifting justifications for the war,

and the huge drawdown of critical munitions.

How many more months, just order of magnitude, do you think that you're going to need to be

able to conclude operations successfully?

And how many more billions of dollars do you think you're going to ask this body for?

Well, as you know, and as the president has stated, you would never tell your adversary.

Lawmakers from both parties also have raised concerns about hex-sing

of top generals and other military leaders.

The House of Representatives has voted to reauthorize

a key U.S. spy tool ahead of a Thursday night deadline. 42 Democrats joined Republicans to pass

the legislation, but the measure still has to clear the Senate where Republican leadership has

signaled the bill will be rewritten. NPR's Eric McDaniel has this report. The tool is section 702 of the

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, also known as FISA. U.S. intelligence agencies use it to

scoop up the communications of more than 300,000 foreign nationals located outside of the U.S.

each year. The government says the intelligence collected under FISA 702 underpins a huge

share of the president's daily intelligence briefings.

But reformers in both parties have long been concerned about the government reviewing Americans'

private information gathered as part of the surveillance and unsuccessfully pushed for law

enforcement to need a warrant before agents could do targeted reviews of the communications of

U.S. citizens in the database.

The measure now heads to the Senate, which must act by Thursday night, to avoid a potential legal morass if the law expires. Eric McDaniel and Pierre News the Capitol.

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