{"id":2592714,"date":"2026-04-20T10:10:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-signals-leveraging-beloved-deep-state-spy-tool-for-save-america-act\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:11:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:11:31","slug":"trump-signals-leveraging-beloved-deep-state-spy-tool-for-save-america-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-signals-leveraging-beloved-deep-state-spy-tool-for-save-america-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Signals Leveraging Beloved Deep State Spy Tool For SAVE America Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-signals-leveraging-beloved-deep-state-spy-tool-for-save-america-act%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2592714&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump floated tying the renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act\u2019s Section 702 to the passage of the SAVE America Act, a GOP-backed voter-ID bill. Florida Rep.Anna Paulina Luna had suggested leveraging FISA talks to push the legislation through Congress, and in remarks aboard Air Force One Trump told reporters he would \u201clove to see that,\u201d praising the SAVE america Act as vital for democracy and voter identity. The story notes that Senate lawmakers recently approved a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-skirts-nationwide-economic-catastrophe-after-last-minute-agreement-to-lift-debt-ceiling\/\" title=\"Congress Skirts Nationwide Economic Catastrophe After Last-Minute Agreement To Lift Debt Ceiling\">short-term extension<\/a> of Section 702 to April 30 while talks continue, but Republican hardliners want additional guardrails on the program. Trump has signaled support for a clean extension and even suggested he would be willing to surrender certain rights to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/energy-department-blasts-epas-proposed-chemical-ban-alleging-it-would-hurt-us-ability-to-detect-wmds\/\" title=\"Energy Dept. criticizes EPA&#039;s chemical ban, claims it hampers WMD detection.\">support national security<\/a>. The article also references controversial provisions the bill would address, including issues related to transgender participation in sports and the handling of mail-in ballots. The piece cites coverage from The Hill and notes that the Daily Caller News foundation produced the content, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >wiht standard publishing disclaimers<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump suggested Friday he would leverage the future of a prized spy tool of the U.S. national security apparatus to pass a stalled Republican-backed voter identification bill through Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with reporters on Air Force One, Trump was asked about an effort by Republican Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna to leverage talks over the expiration of Section 702 in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to force the passage of the SAVE America Act.<\/p>\n<p>Luna first hinted at the idea in a Monday interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5831036-luna-fisa-save-america-act\/\">The Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;On FISA, Mr. President, Anna Paul[ina] Luna is pushing to have the SAVE America Act linked to FISA in the FISA Renewal. Are you in favor?&rdquo; Daily Caller reporter Reagan Reese <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/reaganreese_\/status\/2045337569718645131\">asked<\/a> the president.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think she&rsquo;s great, and I&rsquo;d love to see that,&rdquo; the president responded. &ldquo;The SAVE America Act is so important, it&rsquo;s so good. It&rsquo;s voter ID, it&rsquo;s &hellip; basics about a Democracy, voter ID, birthplace.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadAnyclip() { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst container=document.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!container) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=\"https:\/\/player.anyclip.com\/anyclip-widget\/lre-widget\/prod\/v1\/src\/lre.js\"; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"pubname\", \"westernjournalcom\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"widgetname\", \"001w000001jULVcAAO_M12924\");  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ append inside the container so player shows in correct spot \t\t\t\t\t\tcontainer.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadAnyclip(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #anyclipvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#anyclipvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>The president also said that provisions regarding &ldquo;transgender mutilization[[<em>sic<\/em>]&rdquo; of minors and men in women&rsquo;s sports, among other items, were highlighted in the bill.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We also have no mail-in ballots other than for the military, et cetera, if you&rsquo;re sick &hellip; if you&rsquo;re away, if you&rsquo;re disabled, any of those things, it&rsquo;s pretty generous, actually,&rdquo; Trump continued.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But, [there is] tremendous cheating that goes on with the mail-in ballots, so we would have no mail-in ballots except for those various exceptions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s comments come after the Senate passed a short-term extension of FISA&rsquo;s Section 702, allowing the provision to run until April 30 while giving legislators more time to work out a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Talks are being held up by Republican hardliners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/04\/16\/fisa-extension-trump-republicans-00878199\">seeking<\/a> guardrails for the Section, including warrants and preventing data brokers from selling information to the government.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being targeted with the tool in his first presidential campaign under a now-debunked dossier, the president signaled support Wednesday for a clean extension of the provision.<\/p>\n<p>He also suggested he would willingly surrender his rights for the provision to continue.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am willing to risk the giving up of my Rights and Privileges as a Citizen for our Great Military and Country! Our Military Patriots desperately need FISA 702, and it is one of the reasons we have had such tremendous SUCCESS on the battlefield,&rdquo; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116409146419851362\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a> on  at the time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-membership-plummets-to-record-low\/\" title=\"Union Membership Plummets to Record Low\">legitimate news publisher<\/a> that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter&rsquo;s byline and their DCNF affiliation. 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He spoke with reporters aboard Air Force One when asked about Florida Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna\u2019s idea to link the SAVE America Act to a renewal of FISA. Luna had signaled the plan in a Monday interview. Trump told reporters he thinks Luna is \u201cgreat\u201d and that he would like to see the linkage happen, praising the SAVE America Act as important for voter ID and other democratic basics.<\/p>\n<p>The article notes Luna\u2019s idea came from The Hill, and it mentions that the SAVE America Act would touch on issues like voter ID and related electoral safeguards, including debates over mail-in ballots. Trump claimed there is \u201ctremendous cheating\u201d with mail-in ballots and said there would be no mail-in ballots except for certain exceptions such as for the military or those who are ill or disabled.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Senate had passed a short-term extension of Section 702 to April 30 to give lawmakers more time to resolve the stalemate, which is being driven by Republican hardliners seeking guardrails such as warrants and limits on data brokers\u2019 access to information. Despite prior attacks on the tool during his first presidential campaign, Trump signaled support for a clean extension of the provision and suggested he would be willing to surrender his own rights to keep it going, writing that the military needs FISA 702 and that it has contributed to battlefield successes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2592715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_7739.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[78121,5894,75510,78122,3634],"class_list":["post-2592714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-deepstate","tag-politics","tag-saveamericaact","tag-spytool","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_7739.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2592714"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592718,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592714\/revisions\/2592718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2592715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2592714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2592714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2592714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}