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Senate Republicans are pressing President Trump to withdraw Bill Pulte as acting Director of National Intelligence to salvage reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act before its June 12 expiration. A June 5 procedural vote failed 47-52 after seven Republican senators joined near-unanimous Democratic opposition, with the dispute revealing overlapping fault lines between privacy hawks, national security defenders, and civil liberties advocates that make the path to renewal unclear even if Pulte is removed.