"Acting" Out? Trump Considers Pulling AG Nominee
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It's Friday, July 31st, and you thought getting your job was hard. We start here. Todd Blanch's efforts to be confirmed as Attorney General hit a wall. Two of them, actually.
Blanch will need every single Republican to advance out of that committee and get to a vote on the Senate floor.
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Why the world's biggest sporting event may lose some of its biggest teams. From ABC News, this is Start Here. I'm Mike Dabosky. Hey, Brad's out on vacation for the next few days. I'll be covering him in the meantime. You might remember Todd Blanch as President Trump's former attorney. He was part of the legal team Trump used to defend himself in the various cases the federal government had lodged against him, everything from hush money payments to election obstruction, classified documents. He then jumped over to the Justice Department after Trump won a second term and became acting attorney general earlier this year after Pam Bondi left amid backlash for her handling of the Epstein files. Well, for the past several weeks,
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch has been trying to drop that acting part of his title, but he's run into some pretty big headwinds, notably from two prominent Republicans. Let's bring in ABC's Allie Pokorin. Allie, can you just break down what the holdup is in this nomination?
So there are two senators that we've been keeping a really close eye on on this. And I know that doesn't sound like very much, but when it comes to a Senate confirmation, every vote matters, especially in a Senate that's divided the way this one is. These two senators are Senators John Cornyn of Texas and Senators Tom Tillis of North Carolina, both of these men. have raised objections to advancing Blanche's nomination because they have two major concerns about the acting attorney general that they say they need the Department of Justice to clear up for them before they feel comfortable voting for Blanche.
Why is Todd Blanche's Attorney General nomination facing Republican objections?
Every time I think we're getting close to a resolution, somebody throws a wrench into the workplace. Both of those issues stem from a settlement that President Donald Trump reached with the IRS a little while ago. As a result of that settlement, two things happened that these senators don't like. Number one, there was the creation of this $1.8 billion so-called anti-weaponization fund. That fund was designed with the belief that people who felt that they were wronged by President Joe Biden's Department of Justice could seek retribution or repayment for damages that they may have faced under that Department of Justice.
But this is reimbursing people that were horribly treated, horribly treated. It's anti-weaponization. They've been weaponized.
When that weaponization fund was created, it was immediately faced with backlash by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. There were challenges to it and it forced Blanche to come to the Hill and basically profess that the fund would not go forward, that it was dead.
The settlement fund's just not moving forward. There's no modification. It's just, it never started. No money went from the Treasury to any other account. There's no commissioners. It's not moving forward.
But for Cornyn and for Tillis, they want firmer assurance that that is not going forward.
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