Blanche rescinds fund for Trump allies after GOP senators threaten to block his attorney general bid

Photo: Todd Blanche in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room on Friday, June 27, 2025. Photo credit: Official White House photo by Molly Riley via Flickr. US government work. Article by Mary Clare Jalonick and Alanna Durkin Richer. AP News – August 2, 2026.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a formal order late Sunday terminating President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” to compensate his political allies, a move that follows weeks of negotiations with two Republican senators who were blocking his nomination to become attorney general. A spokeswoman for Texas Sen. John Cornyn, one of the senators holding up Blanche’s nomination, confirmed the deal, which comes ahead of a Tuesday confirmation vote for Blanche’s nomination in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The other GOP senator, North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, did not have immediate comment. […]

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