The Senator Trump Ignored Is Now Holding His AG Pick Hostage Over a Dead Fund
Senator John Cornyn is threatening to block Trump's Attorney General nominee, Todd Blanche, over written guarantees regarding an already-defunct $1.776 billion compensation fund.
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The Senator Trump Ignored Is Now Holding His AG Pick Hostage Over a Dead Fund
John Cornyn is having a year. First, he got absolutely shellacked in his primary race, a humbling reminder that Texas Republicans have moved on from establishment fixtures who mistake seniority for relevance. Now he’s threatening to tank Todd Blanche’s nomination as attorney general over a fund that doesn’t exist anymore, won’t exist in the future, and which the Justice Department has explicitly said it has no intention of pursuing.
Let that sink in. We’re talking about holding up a critical cabinet position over something that’s already dead.
The dispute centers on Trump’s settlement with the IRS from May, when the president agreed to drop his $10 billion lawsuit in exchange for an apology and the creation of a $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund. The idea was simple enough. Compensate Americans who got railroaded by federal agencies during the Biden years. You know, the kind of people who had their lives turned upside down because some bureaucrat in Washington decided they were politically inconvenient.
Is Senator Cornyn standing up for principled oversight, or is he merely leveraging a dead issue to settle political scores?
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