MAGA rebel Marjorie Taylor Greene is sounding the alarm that Donald Trump will exploit the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as an excuse “to give up your rights.”
The former GOP congresswoman and one-time Trump devotee lashed out at the president on Sunday, hours after a gunman tried to storm Saturday’s dinner at the Washington Hilton in D.C.
Trump wasted little time using the shooting to argue for the need for his White House ballroom. But Greene accused him of using the fallout to justify another of his priorities: a U.S. spy program.
“The President is using his war on Iran and last night’s WHCD shooting as excuses to give up your rights so that Congress just passes a clean extension of FISA 702,” Greene wrote on Twitter, referring to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which empowers the administration to intercept the electronic communications of non-U.S. nationals in foreign countries without a warrant.
“It’s ridiculous and absurd that any President who has sworn an oath to uphold the constitution would ever tell Americans to give up your rights so the government has the ability to spy on you, especially a government that has already done it to not only him, but to hundreds of thousands of Americans,” she continued.
Section 702 gathers data on nearly 350,000 foreign nationals who live outside the U.S. but communicate with Americans, meaning those Americans’ calls, texts, and emails can be swept up and accessed by federal officials.
The program is set to expire on April 30, and the White House has been urging Congress to extend it into at least 2027, but it remains a highly divisive issue among MAGA Republicans.
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