Scott Wong, Sahil Kapur, Julie Tsirkin and Rebecca Kaplan at NBC:
A band of hard-right agitators, backed by former President Donald Trump, revolted against GOP leaders Wednesday, blocking renewal of a powerful surveillance program that is set to expire next week and throwing the GOP-led House into chaos once again. Nineteen conservatives broke with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and his leadership team and voted down a “rule”; the vote was 193-228. It’s yet another example of a minority of Republicans using the otherwise procedural vote to prevent the House from debating their own party’s legislation. It was the seventh time this Congress — and the fourth under Johnson — that Republicans have taken down their own rule, according to a review by NBC News.