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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

Trump has once again chucked a grenade on the Senate floor ahead of a key funding deadline

With a key funding deadline looming, Donald Trump has once again chucked a grenade onto the Senate floor.

Friday marks the cutoff for renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), one of the key pieces of legislation giving the federal government the power to collect electronic data and records as part of efforts to fight terrorist groups and collect foreign intelligence from persons and groups operating on U.S. soil.

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