Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), along with several GOP lawmakers, will meet with President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr Tuesday afternoon amid controversy over expiring surveillance authorities, according to people familiar with the matter.
The White House meeting comes as Barr is pushing for a clean extension of the surveillance laws that will expire March 15. The deadline has exposed a rift within the Republican party:
Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who will also attend the meeting, both want to see reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Paul told reporters last week that Trump told him he does not support a clean extension of the expiring provisions. Paul wants to amend the law to prevent FISA from targeting Americans.
In addition to McConnell, McCarthy, Lee and Paul, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), House Oversight Committee ranking member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), and House Judiciary Committee ranking member Doug Collins (R-Ga.) will attend the meeting, according to a senior administration official.
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