The legislation to end the federal government shutdown contains a specific framework for at least eight Republican U.S. senators, including Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, to receive millions of dollars due to FBI spying in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s probe related to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

The language — a last-minute Senate amendment that stunned House Republicans — allows any senator to sue the government for $500,000 for each “instance” of data collection in Smith’s probe.

Early this month, the Senate Judiciary Committee released an FBI document showing the phone records of Lummis and seven other Republican senators were scooped up in Smith’s investigation, dubbed Arctic Frost.

Lummis has repeatedly expressed outrage over the spying during the Biden administrati

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