Security News > 2020 > May > Surveillance Bill Vote Scrapped After Opposition From Trump, DoJ
House Democrats on Wednesday decided to abandon a vote on the reauthorization of several government surveillance programs under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
A similar amendment proposed earlier this week by Representatives Zoe Lofgren and Warren Davidson saw broad support in the House of Representatives, but the vote on the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act was abandoned on Wednesday, after both the Department of Justice and President Donald Trump publicly opposed the bill.
In a tweet on Tuesday, President Donald Trump urged Republicans to vote against the FISA bill, at least until light is shed into the FBI's surveillance of his presidential campaign in 2016.
"I hope all Republican House Members vote NO on FISA until such time as our Country is able to determine how and why the greatest political, criminal, and subversive scandal in USA history took place!," President Trump tweeted.
The abandoned vote also impacts the National Security Agency's surveillance program, which was suspended in early 2019.