{"id":21382,"date":"2026-04-15T15:46:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-makes-last-minute-plea-for-gop-to-stick-together-on-key-surveillance-powers-vote\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:46:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:46:40","slug":"trump-makes-last-minute-plea-for-gop-to-stick-together-on-key-surveillance-powers-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-makes-last-minute-plea-for-gop-to-stick-together-on-key-surveillance-powers-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump makes last-minute plea for GOP to \u2018stick together\u2019 on key surveillance powers vote"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump is ramping up pressure for Republicans to \u201cunify\u201d behind a clean, 18-month extension of a key spy power \u2014 making a last minute plea to GOP holdouts refusing to bend without certain amendments.<\/p>\n

In a Truth Social post<\/a> on Wednesday, Trump echoed past calls to House Republicans urging them to \u201cUNIFY, and vote together on the test vote\u201d for a bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which contains a controversial provision that allows for warrantless surveillance of non-U.S. citizens and has divided lawmakers over privacy concerns.<\/p>\n

A procedural vote teeing up final passage for a FISA extension was scheduled for Wednesday. House leaders postponed it<\/a>, but Republicans are still hopeful it can still be held later Wednesday. The spy authority, which has for years triggered fights on Capitol Hill<\/a>, has concerned some lawmakers for creating a backdoor that allows the government to also search Americans\u2019 data.<\/p>\n

Trump asked the GOP \u201cstick together when this Bill comes before the House Rules Committee\u201d as several Republicans raised concerns<\/a> about the bill\u2019s surveillance powers and sought to amend sections of FISA containing a loophole that allows intelligence agencies to collect warrantless information from third-party brokers with data from phone apps and web activity.<\/p>\n

\u201cPassing a clean Section 702 reauthorization without any reforms to protect the Fourth Amendment right to privacy would be a major disservice to the American people,\u201d Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) said Tuesday. \u201cWe live in a digital age, and cell phones are now extensions of our homes; they store our personal conversations, location data, banking information, and health records. Our personal devices deserve the same constitutional protections as our homes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump said he\u2019s been working with Speaker Mike Johnson, House Intelligence Chair Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) and House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to pass a clean extension through the House ahead of the April 20 expiration date.<\/p>\n

House GOP leaders have backed the White House\u2019s request of a clean extension.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump is ramping up pressure for Republicans to \u201cunify\u201d behind a clean, 18-month extension of a key spy power \u2014 making a last minute plea to GOP holdouts refusing to bend without certain amendments. In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, Trump echoed past calls to House Republicans urging them to \u201cUNIFY, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21382","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=21382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}