{"id":76905,"date":"2026-08-03T05:55:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/trumps-attorney-general-pick-says-he-has-reached-deal-with-senators-after-standoff-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T05:55:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:55:43","slug":"trumps-attorney-general-pick-says-he-has-reached-deal-with-senators-after-standoff-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/trumps-attorney-general-pick-says-he-has-reached-deal-with-senators-after-standoff-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s attorney general pick says he has reached deal with senators after standoff \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Blanche issues formal order to withdraw \u2018anti-weaponization fund\u2019 after weeks of negotiations with Republican senators who were blocking his nomination<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/03\/blanche-formally-rescinds-trumps-18bn-anti-weaponization-fund-ahead-of-nomination-hearing\">Blanche formally rescinds Trump\u2019s $1.8bn \u2018anti-weaponization fund\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the US Breaking News email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Acting US attorney general Todd Blanche issued a formal order late on Sunday terminating Donald Trump\u2019s $1.8bn \u201canti-weaponization fund\u201d to compensate his political allies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/aug\/03\/donald-trump-todd-blanche-anti-weaponization-fund-iran-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Blanche issues formal order to withdraw \u2018anti-weaponization fund\u2019 after weeks of negotiations with Republican senators who were blocking his nomination Blanche formally rescinds Trump\u2019s $1.8bn \u2018anti-weaponization fund\u2019 Sign up for the US Breaking News email Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Acting US attorney general Todd Blanche issued a formal order &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s attorney general pick says he has reached deal with senators after standoff \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/trumps-attorney-general-pick-says-he-has-reached-deal-with-senators-after-standoff-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s attorney general pick says he has reached deal with senators after standoff \u2013 US politics live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}