{"id":76910,"date":"2026-08-03T06:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/blanche-scraps-anti-weaponization-fund-ahead-of-nomination\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T06:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:58:12","slug":"blanche-scraps-anti-weaponization-fund-ahead-of-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/blanche-scraps-anti-weaponization-fund-ahead-of-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Blanche Scraps \u2018Anti-Weaponization\u2019 Fund Ahead of Nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche\u2019s nomination appears to be back on track after he announced a key decision to satisfy two Republican holdouts in the Senate who said they could not support his confirmation until the \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund was rescinded in writing. Now, Blanche posted an order establishing, \u201cBeyond any doubt, there is no fund.\u201d\u00a0 NBC\u2019s Garrett Haake reports for TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche\u2019s nomination appears to be back on track after he announced a key decision to satisfy two Republican holdouts in the Senate who said they could not support his confirmation until the \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund was rescinded in writing. Now, Blanche posted an order establishing, \u201cBeyond any doubt, there is no fund.\u201d\u00a0 &#8230; <a title=\"Blanche Scraps \u2018Anti-Weaponization\u2019 Fund Ahead of Nomination\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/blanche-scraps-anti-weaponization-fund-ahead-of-nomination\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Blanche Scraps \u2018Anti-Weaponization\u2019 Fund Ahead of Nomination\">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-76910","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\/76910","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=76910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}