One of America's most valuable spy powers is on track to expire Friday after President Trump refused to back down from a coming purge that has blown up Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune's carefully negotiated FISA deal.

• Johnson will try a last-ditch vote tomorrow to extend the program's surveillance authorities through July 2. It's expected to fail.

💣 Why it matters: Johnson and Thune were this close to a deal that could have likely passed both chambers with bipartisan votes, and then Trump named Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence.

• Trump wants Pulte "to execute the immediate and needed downsizing" of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, he posted today on Truth Social.

🛑 Now Democrats are refusing to back another extension of Section 702 unless Trump reverses his decision to name Pulte to the acting DNI job.

• "Bill Pulte cannot serve a minute as acting director of national intelligence, and until that elevation is abandoned, there's nothing really to talk about," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters today.
• "Pulte is just one of the most vicious, incapable, non-fact-based people I've ever seen in the government," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told Punchbowl News.

📖 Zoom out: Section 702 of FISA feeds more than half of the president's daily briefing and has been credited with helping thwart terror plots and other national-security threats.

• "It'd be a very dangerous time to allow us to not have that important national security tool," Johnson said today.
• "I'm the only one in this institution that's actually used 702 to save lives," Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) told us. "It is critical to the president's daily brief. It's the single most important 9/11 commission recommendation that we have, and it's at risk of going dark due to foolishness."

🕵️‍♀️ Section 702 allows the U.S. attorney general and director of national intelligence to compel electronic service providers to provide communications involving foreign intelligence targets overseas.

• Intelligence agencies and telecommunications companies will face immediate legal uncertainty over what collection activities may continue.

The bottom line: Not every Democrat is comfortable allowing the authority to expire, but Johnson is nowhere close to the necessary two-thirds majority and Republicans aren't signaling support for a short-term extension.

• "I'm not going to play politics with our national security, that's ... you know, that's for Donald Trump to do," Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, told us.
• Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.), who has been pushing for reforms to the program, told us he's considering voting against a short-term extension. "They ask guys like us, 'Well, could you please give us a little more time to get this done?' You grow tired of that crap after a while."

— Kate Santaliz

Yesterday, we told you about how some House Democrats are threatening to withhold their dues to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee unless it stops meddling in primaries.

• Now we want to tell you what those dues are, exactly, and who is paying them.

Why it matters: This isn't the DCCC's only source of income, but it is a significant one. And it has a problem with its members coughing up.

• More than half of House Democrats had paid less than 50% of their expected dues as of the beginning of April, with an average payment rate of 47%, according to a member dues report obtained by Axios.
• Nearly 30 members who aren't in battleground districts have paid 0% of their expected dues.
• The report was first reported by Puck News.

Between the lines: DCCC dues are what House Democrats in safe districts are expected to fork over to their party's campaign arm each cycle to help swing-district members and candidates get elected.

• The thinking essentially goes: If you want legislative power, you'll give your money to the campaigns that will give you the majority and, subsequently, committee gavels.
• Ambitious members seeking coveted committee spots, leadership roles or simply to garner favor with their colleagues often strive to meet or exceed their set target.
• Those already in leadership roles are expected to pay more than the average rank-and-file members.

Those who haven't paid any dues include:

• Members who have faced tough primary challenges this year: Reps. Al Green (D-Texas), Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) and Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.).
• Several retiring members, such as Reps. Jerry Nadler and Nydia Velázquez, both of New York, and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton of D.C.
• Some other big names are Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.).

— Andrew Solender