WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, has joined 45 other Democratic senators in asking President Donald Trump to veto legislation passed by the Republican-controlled Congress which would would undo consumer privacy rules enacted by the Federal Communication Commission designed to prohibit internet service providers from selling or sharing the personal data of their customers without first obtaining a consumer’s permission.

Brown and the senators sent a letter to Trump on Thursday asking him to reject the bill.

“We write today to urge a swift veto of S.J.Res. 34, a resolution that would rescind the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) broadband privacy rules,” the letter said. “This legislation will seriously undermine the privacy protections of the overwhelming majority of Americans who believe that their private information should be just that — private — and not for sale without their knowledge.

The Senate passed its version of the bill this week, with 50 Republicans, including Ohio’s Rob Portman, supporting the undoing of the rules, and 48 Democrats opposed.

Trump can sign the bill into law, or, if he were to veto the bill, it would require a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress to override, a margin significantly higher than the bill’s support for passage.