The law is set to expire on Friday at midnight

Forty-five days after Congress punted a fight to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Republican leaders are staring down a new deadline.

A US surveillance law that allows federal authorities to collect the communications of foreigners abroad and search them for Americans’ data without a

Democrats withheld their support for the measure over Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence.