Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has a chance Tuesday to convince Republicans he’s dropping plans for a controversial $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund.”
But it’s unclear if members of his party will be swayed enough to unjam President Donald Trump’s larger agenda.
Senate Republicans — enough of whom returned from recess still furious about the pot of money — will discuss the status of the fund during a closed-door lunch Tuesday, according to several Republican senators.
Hours later Blanche is set to testify to House appropriators certain to grill him on his statements last month that the fund could be used to pay people who attacked…
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