{"id":19390,"date":"2026-02-26T16:22:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-tells-committee-chairs-he-backs-controversial-spy-law-extension-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T16:22:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:22:33","slug":"trump-tells-committee-chairs-he-backs-controversial-spy-law-extension-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-tells-committee-chairs-he-backs-controversial-spy-law-extension-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tells committee chairs he backs controversial spy law extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump wants Congress to sidestep internal debates and extend a key surveillance program &mdash; and he has made the demand directly to key Hill Republicans. At issue is the foreign spy program known as Section 702, which is set to lapse on April 20&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/25\/congress\/trump-section-702-renewal-00798337\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump wants Congress to sidestep internal debates and extend a key surveillance program &mdash; and he has made the demand directly to key Hill Republicans. At issue is the foreign spy program known as Section 702, which is set to lapse on April 20&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}