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Blanche rescinds anti-weaponization fund

August 3, 2026

Todd Blanche rescinded Trump's anti-weaponization fund, a deal Senator John Cornyn confirmed ahead of Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Committee vote on his nomination.

AP News reports that Todd Blanche has rescinded President Trump's anti-weaponization fund, and that Senator John Cornyn, one of the senators holding up Blanche's nomination, confirmed the deal ahead of a Tuesday confirmation vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee. NPR, CNN and Fox News carry the same account, each corroborating the central facts: the fund is gone and the vote proceeds. The core material traces to Blanche's own statement in a social media post, which the outlets wrote up independently.

The New York Times reads the move through the Senate arithmetic, tying it to written assurances Blanche gave Republican senators over the IRS arrangement. That angle supplies the mechanism: the rescission reads as the price of the holdout votes, offered in writing before the committee acts. None of the five outlets disputes any fact of the account.

What is settled: Blanche rescinded the fund, Cornyn confirmed the deal, and the committee votes Tuesday. What the record does not yet show is how the remaining holdouts respond.

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The response of the other holdout senators is unrecorded, and none of the five outlets has published the full terms of the written assurances Blanche gave Republican senators.

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