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Digger you are having this issue because you are merging two queries with a different privacy level. You can go to data source settings -> Edit permissions, and verify that all the sources are at either "None" or "Organizational" or "Public" privacy setting. Remeber, that not all privacy level sources can be merged.

You can read more about privacy levels and which source can merge here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/enterprise/desktop-privacy-levels