Trump warns $1.8B fund could return if Blanche nomination fails

We begin this morning with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche breaking a weeks-long standoff with Republican senators

by scrapping a controversial part of President Trump's settlement with the IRS

Blanche announced Sunday night that he has formally rescinded Trump's proposed $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund

just two days before the Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote on his nomination to become Attorney General

The move follows a political stalemate with Republican Senators Tom Tillis and John Cornyn

who had refused to advance Blanche's nomination until the fund was officially removed in writing

The fund was part of a settlement resolving Trump's lawsuit against the IRS and Treasury Department

It would have paid people who claimed they were politically targeted by the federal government during the Biden administration

Blanche also revised another part of the settlement, making clear that its protections apply only to IRS matters that were already open when the agreement was signed

and do not shield future tax returns or audits. Sometimes the most interesting part of a story never makes it into the headlines

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