Senate Republicans have entered a new phase of national security tensions with President Trump.

Why it matters: Trump is demanding Republicans move in lockstep with him on three high-stakes national-security fronts at once, even as his moves are generating many of their sharpest criticisms of him yet.

1. 🕵️‍♀️ Section 702 of FISA: The spy powers lapsed Friday after Trump's choice of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence blew up bipartisan negotiations. Senators woke up today to a 3:54am "Truth" in which Trump said he was delaying Jay Clayton's nomination as DNI and demanding Republicans attach the SAVE Act.
2. 💣 Iran: Some Republican senators are apoplectic over the Iran war deal text that came out today. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) called Trump's Iran war "the worst foreign policy blunder in decades," and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told reporters Trump "is receiving some very poor advice on this deal."
3. 🚀 Defense funding: The White House wants $1.5 trillion for defense, including $350 billion through reconciliation. The regular appropriations topline has drawn fierce Democratic pushback and raised shutdown risks this fall. Trump also wanted the SAVE Act attached to it, even as Senate Majority Leader John Thune said key provisions would likely be stripped by the Senate parliamentarian.

🪤 The big picture: Thune has spent the past 18 months trying to keep Trump's national security demands aligned with what Senate Republicans can pass. That alignment looks more fragile than ever.

• Thune hadn't been briefed on the Iran deal. He also didn't get a heads-up on Trump delaying the Clayton nomination, and he called it a "good question" when asked what the president hoped to accomplish by postponing it.
• But Thune told Punchbowl News he and Trump are "fine." A source familiar with their relationship said that narratives about the two being at odds are overblown and that they're in frequent communication.
• "The White House and President Trump have enjoyed working closely with Leader Thune and Senate Republicans. ... We look forward to continuing these close relationships and fulfilling President Trump's priorities that Americans elected him to enact." White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told us.

The bottom line: "The president has put Leader Thune in a very difficult position. ... We need a new DNI and we need to get FISA back," Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) told Semafor.

— Justin Green

Democrats celebrated a small victory in Georgia today as GOP leaders shelved plans to redraw the state's congressional maps for the 2028 elections.

• House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, in a statement to us, said his party "will continue to keep the pressure on until the MAGA power grab is defeated and the American people prevail."
• "Georgia Republicans know that MAGA extremists will face a fierce backlash at the ballot box in November and beyond for their scheme to rig congressional maps in the middle of the decade," he said.

Between the lines: Republicans hit pause on their plans amid fear that a redraw before November could energize Democratic voters.

• Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns wrote in a letter to Gov. Brian Kemp today that the legislature would not attempt to redraw Georgia's congressional or state legislative lines at this year's special session.

The bottom line: "This fight is not over," state Rep. Jasmine Clark, the Democratic nominee in Georgia's 13th U.S. House District, warned in a statement today.

• "This redistricting special session was completely unnecessary, and I'm happy that Republican leaders are saying no to redrawing lines."

— Andrew Solender