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Acting AG Blanche reveals fate of Trump's 'anti-weaponization fund' under pressure from House lawmakers

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced during a House Appropriations Committee hearing Tuesday that the Justice Department is abandoning its efforts to create the Anti-Weaponization Fund.The fund, which stemmed from a lawsuit between President Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue Service, was put on hold after a federal judge issued a temporary injunction blocking its creation. A hearing on the Anti-Weaponization Fund's legal basis had been scheduled for June 12, but it will no longer take place, according to Blanche's testimony."We are not moving forward with the fund, period," Blanc...