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7/30/2026, 5:40:30 AM
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There are major roadblocks for President Trump's pick for attorney general.
Lawmakers have postponed a vote on Todd Blanch's nomination, which was supposed to take place today.
Two Republicans are threatening to vote against Blanch, which would sink his nomination.
It's all because of a deal he helped work out as acting AG to settle President Trump's lawsuit against the IRS.
The deal included the creation of a controversial billion dollar anti-weaponization fund.
The White House says that fund has been dropped, but many lawmakers want it in writing.
>> It's just that they've refused to commit to writing what he testified to under oath and uh it's not a big ask.
We're trying to help them uh get this solved, but uh they refused to accept ours our help.
>> CBS News White House reporter Olivia Raldi is live in our DC bureau with more on this.
Olivia, good morning. Give us some perspective.
Why is this vote being stalled and what's President Trump saying about this?
>> Well, good morning. It's good to be with you.
There's certainly a stall in the Senate for the confirmation of acting attorney general Todd Blanch.
And it's being stalled by two Republicans, Tom Tillis and John Cornin.
And for all the reasons you just laid out there about the anti-weaponization fund, that is correct.
That is why this is being stalled.
They want in writing that that so-called anti-weaponization fund, that
$1.8 8 billion to people that the president says or believes uh were unfairly prosecuted under former President Biden's justice department could apply to that money.
The fund was squashed and then Senator Cornin who sits on the judiciary committee had asked for it to be in writing that they
will never have that fund again or try to revive it.
The president uh had suggested that perhaps this was something they could do, but it was never put in writing.
So therefore, that's why this is being held up.
Now, politically, it's interesting because
these two senators uh were two senators who are not running again.
Tom Tillis decided not to run for reelection in
North Carolina because the president had attacked him last summer over not voting for the one big beautiful bill.
And Senator John Cornin will not be running in his race because he lost a primary to
a Trump back challenger.
So these are two Republican senators though that are bucking the president in their waning days as senators.
So it's a very politically dynamic and interesting situation on Capitol Hill.
One that we don't see quite often of Republicans breaking with the president.
The question really is though, what is the path forward?
Is there a way potentially uh that we could see uh another attorney general being picked if Todd Blanch falls through?
We don't know yet.
The White House is still hopeful that potentially they could work this out and get this pushed through, but at this moment in time, it does look quite uncertain.
>> All right, we'll have to wait and see.
Olivia Raldi in Washington. Thank you.
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