House tucks repeal of $500,000 Senate ‘Arctic Frost’ benefit in government funding bill

The House unanimously passed an amendment to a government funding bill stripping senators swept up in the “Arctic Frost” investigation of the ability to sue the federal government for $500,000 in damages.

The amendment will make passing the final spending bills in the Senate an uphill battle. It came the same day that former special counsel Jack Smith was appearing before the House Judiciary Committee.

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The Senate included the lucrative provision in a government funding bill last year that ended the longest government shutdown in history. It allows senators to sue the federal government for upwards of $500,000 if their phone records were collected as part of Smith’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020