{"id":74487,"date":"2026-06-05T09:55:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/senate-blocks-surveillance-bill-in-dispute-over-trumps-intelligence-pick\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:55:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:55:51","slug":"senate-blocks-surveillance-bill-in-dispute-over-trumps-intelligence-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/senate-blocks-surveillance-bill-in-dispute-over-trumps-intelligence-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate blocks surveillance bill in dispute over Trump\u2019s intelligence pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven Republican senators joined Democrats to block Fisa extension amid disquiet over nomination of Bill Pulte<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/jun\/05\/us-politics-latest-news-updates-donald-trump-republicans-democrats\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seven Republican senators joined Democrats early on Friday to block the extension of a powerful government surveillance program, a rebuke to Donald Trump for choosing an inexperienced ally as the country\u2019s top intelligence official.<\/p>\n<p>The renewal had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/03\/trump-intelligence-chief-fisa-surveillance-program\">in question<\/a> amid bipartisan concern over the US president\u2019s appointment of Bill Pulte, a major Republican donor and heir to a home construction fortune, to serve as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/02\/trump-bill-pulte-director-national-intelligence\">acting director of national intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/05\/senate-blocks-surveillance-program-trump-bill-pulte\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven Republican senators joined Democrats to block Fisa extension amid disquiet over nomination of Bill Pulte US politics live \u2013 latest updates Seven Republican senators joined Democrats early on Friday to block the extension of a powerful government surveillance program, a rebuke to Donald Trump for choosing an inexperienced ally as the country\u2019s top intelligence &#8230; <a title=\"Senate blocks surveillance bill in dispute over Trump\u2019s intelligence pick\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/senate-blocks-surveillance-bill-in-dispute-over-trumps-intelligence-pick\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Senate blocks surveillance bill in dispute over Trump\u2019s intelligence pick\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}