Senate Republicans are counting on acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to offer new assurances Tuesday that the Justice Department’s controversial “Anti-Weaponization Fund” is kaput, allowing them to revive their immigration enforcement bill this week.
Blanche is appearing before a House committee in the afternoon, hours after speaking privately with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who said he was expecting Blanche to put any remaining doubts about the fate of the fund to rest.
“I think his statements are going to be very definitive, very clear,” Thune told reporters after a closed-door lunch with fellow GOP senators. A DOJ statement…
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