{"id":919160,"date":"2026-07-12T01:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T06:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/blanche-says-anti-weaponization-fund-not-moving-forward\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T01:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T06:12:11","slug":"blanche-says-anti-weaponization-fund-not-moving-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/blanche-says-anti-weaponization-fund-not-moving-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Blanche says \u2018anti-weaponization\u2019 fund not moving forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told lawmakers Tuesday that the Justice Department is scrapping its plans for a $1.8 billion \u201canti-weaponization fund\u201d after a wave of bipartisan backlash on Capitol Hill. His comments mark an abrupt reversal for the Justice Department amid criticism that the money would amount to a slush fund aimed at funneling [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2026\/06\/02\/blanche-says-anti-weaponization-fund-not-moving-forward\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Lawanda Klemp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told lawmakers Tuesday that the Justice Department is scrapping its plans for a $1.8 billion \u201canti-weaponization fund\u201d after a wave of bipartisan backlash on Capitol Hill. His comments mark an abrupt reversal for the Justice Department amid criticism that the money would amount to a slush fund aimed at funneling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":919161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150930,124916,192],"tags":[150929,124914],"class_list":["post-919160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anti-weaponization","category-blanche","category-sports","tag-anti-weaponization","tag-blanche"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}