{"id":236387,"date":"2026-06-29T16:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=236387"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:57:18","slug":"senate-blocks-surveillance-bill-in-dispute-over-trumps-intelligence-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=236387","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 PulteUS politics live \u2013 latest updatesSeven 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.The renewal had been in question amid bipartisan concern over the US president\u2019s appointment of Bill Pulte&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/05\/senate-blocks-surveillance-program-trump-bill-pulte\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven Republican senators joined Democrats to block Fisa extension amid disquiet over nomination of Bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236387-senate-blocks-surveillance-bill-in-dispute-over-trumps-intelligence-pick.jpg",140,112,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236387-senate-blocks-surveillance-bill-in-dispute-over-trumps-intelligence-pick.jpg",140,112,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236387-senate-blocks-surveillance-bill-in-dispute-over-trumps-intelligence-pick.jpg",140,112,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236387-senate-blocks-surveillance-bill-in-dispute-over-trumps-intelligence-pick.jpg",140,112,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236387-senate-blocks-surveillance-bill-in-dispute-over-trumps-intelligence-pick.jpg",140,112,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236387-senate-blocks-surveillance-bill-in-dispute-over-trumps-intelligence-pick.jpg",140,112,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236387-senate-blocks-surveillance-bill-in-dispute-over-trumps-intelligence-pick.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236387-senate-blocks-surveillance-bill-in-dispute-over-trumps-intelligence-pick.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236387-senate-blocks-surveillance-bill-in-dispute-over-trumps-intelligence-pick.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236387-senate-blocks-surveillance-bill-in-dispute-over-trumps-intelligence-pick.jpg",140,112,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/236388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}