The Senate’s push to renew a critical piece of surveillance legislation hit another snag Monday as Donald Trump sought to link its passage to the Save America Act, the controversial voter ID bill he’s been pushing.
But Senate Majority Leader John Thune signaled that his caucus would simply ignore the president’s apparent veto threat, the latest evidence of a gulf between the president and the Senate GOP and a sign of how tired many Republican senators are of the president’s interference in the upper chamber’s affairs.
