GOP Leaders Decline to Link SAVE America Act to FISA Reauthorization
Senate and House Republican leaders said they will not attach the SAVE America Act to legislation renewing an expired foreign surveillance authority. President Trump had said he would only support the renewal if the election bill were included.
nbcnews.comGOP congressional leaders will not attach the SAVE America Act to legislation reauthorizing an expired foreign surveillance authority. The law authorizes the government to collect communications of foreign targets without a warrant. President Trump stated he would only support the renewal if it included the SAVE America Act.
He wrote on social media that he is against the surveillance law without the election measure attached.
Johnson said reauthorizing the surveillance authority requires 60 votes in the Senate. He expressed hope that Democrats would support the measure. Johnson said he plans to include parts of the SAVE America Act in a future budget reconciliation bill.
The current version of the election bill passed the House but stalled in the Senate. Senate Democratic leader Charles E. Schumer called the SAVE America Act the most vicious piece of anti-voting rights legislation proposed by President Trump and said attaching it to the surveillance renewal is deeply reckless.
