Trump Asks Congress To Save Warrantless Spy Law, Says Bill Pulte Won't Stick Around
Source: Huff Post
Jun 10, 2026, 02:25 PM EDT
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday begged Congress not to kill the government’s spy powers and promised to quickly nominate a replacement for the loyalist he’s picked to lead America’s intelligence agencies. In a post on his website, Trump asked Congress to temporarily extend part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act set to expire this week to give him time to find someone besides Bill Pulte to head the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
“I am asking Congress to send me a short-term extension of FISA to provide time for the selection and confirmation of a permanent Head of the Agency,” Trump wrote, in an apparent nod to Republican requests for the president to quickly name someone else.
The Senate rejected a three-year FISA extension last week after Trump first announced Pulte would serve as acting director of national intelligence. The bipartisan rejection was the second time in weeks Trump set back his own agenda on Capitol Hill; Republicans last month balked at an immigration enforcement bill after Trump created an “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to send cash payments to his political allies. As soon as the administration said the fund wouldn’t move forward, Republicans moved the bill.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Congress would be able to extend the spy law if Trump had not thrown a “live hand grenade” into negotiations by announcing he would put Pulte in charge. Warner suggested lawmakers might be unable to pass another short-term extension after having already done so twice this year. “I’m not sure there are votes there,” Warner told reporters Wednesday.
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