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布兰奇提名前景不明，关键共和党参议员指司法部对叫停有争议基金的要求“毫无音讯”
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发布于 2026年7月28日 美国东部时间下午2:00
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2026年7月15日，美国代理司法部长托德·布兰奇在国会山参议院司法委员会关于其提名的听证会上宣誓就职。
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托德·布兰奇出任唐纳德·特朗普总统司法部长的提名前途未卜，一名关键共和党参议员周二表示，他尚未获得支持投票所需的保障。
参议员约翰·科宁称，他尚未从司法部收到关于他和参议员汤姆·蒂利斯提出的要求的最新进展——他们要求正式“叫停”这项“反武器化”基金，之后才会投票支持推进布兰奇的提名。
两人均为参议院司法委员会成员，该委员会定于周四上午就是否推进布兰奇的提名进行投票。没有他们的支持，投票将以失败告终。
“他们在过去24小时里几乎毫无音讯，”科宁在谈到司法部时说道，“我认为我的幕僚正在和他们沟通，但我们——他们清楚自己需要做什么。他们只是不想去做。”
布兰奇坚称，这项“反武器化”基金——一项备受争议的专项资金池，旨在奖励那些声称遭到司法部不公对待的人，其中可能包括2021年1月6日国会山骚乱的参与者——已不复存在。
在本月早些时候的参议院司法委员会听证会上，这位代理司法部长直言不讳地表示，“武器化基金已经彻底终止”，并表示该税收附加条款——这是特朗普私人律师与司法部达成的协议中仅剩的有效部分——“仅约束美国国税局，进而约束财政部”，禁止其调查总统的潜在犯罪行为，而不适用于其他机构。美国政府此前也曾在一份法庭文件中声称已放弃这项“反武器化”基金。
但据《政客》报道，这两名共和党参议员寻求更多保障，包括对和解协议进行书面调整。
周二，科宁提出将委员会投票推迟到基金问题解决之后的可能性。“此事正在讨论中。正在讨论中，但希望没必要这么做，”这位得克萨斯州共和党人说道，不过他补充称，他尚未与参议院司法委员会主席查克·格拉斯利讨论这一想法。
这项规模达18亿美元的基金从一开始就颇具争议，扰乱了参议院的其他优先事项，批评人士称这相当于一个“贿赂基金”，允许总统用纳税人的钱为其支持者买单。即便美国政府试图让议员们相信基金已经终止，特朗普本人却拒绝就此表态，这加剧了国会山的紧张局势。
上周，科宁曾表示他不认为格拉斯利会推迟投票。但随着投票日期临近，情况可能发生变化。
科宁周四表示，如果没有足够票数确认布兰奇的提名，“那么格拉斯利参议员可能会决定推迟投票。但这不是——我认为这不是当前的首要目标。”
Blanche nomination uncertain as key GOP senator says DOJ ‘radio silent’ on demand to spike controversial fund
2026-07-28T18:00:48.058Z / CNN
Blanche nomination uncertain as key GOP senator says DOJ ‘radio silent’ on demand to spike controversial fund
By Morgan Rimmer
2 hr ago
PUBLISHED Jul 28, 2026, 2:00 PM ET
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Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche is sworn in before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination on Capitol Hill on July 15, 2026.
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The fate of Todd Blanche’s nomination to be President Donald Trump’s attorney general is up in the air, with a key GOP senator indicating Tuesday he has not yet received the assurances he needs to vote in support.
Sen. John Cornyn said he hasn’t received an update from the Justice Department on his and Sen. Thom Tillis’ demand that the “anti-weaponization” fund be formally killed before they vote in favor of advancing Blanche’s nomination.
Both Republicans sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is scheduled to vote Thursday morning on whether to move forward on Blanche’s nomination. Without their backing, the vote will fail.
“They’ve been kind of radio silent for the last 24 hours,” Cornyn said of the DOJ. “I think my staff is talking to them, but we’re not — they know what they need to do. They just don’t want to do it.”
Blanche has insisted that the “anti-weaponization” fund — a controversial pool of money set aside to award people who claim to have been wronged by the Justice Department, including possibly January 6, 2021, rioters — is no longer happening.
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this month, the acting attorney general insisted bluntly that “the weaponization fund is dead,” and said that the tax addendum — which is the only part of the agreement between Trump’s personal attorneys and the Justice Department that still stands — “binds only the IRS and by extension the Treasury” from investigating the president for potential crimes, not other agencies. The administration had also previously asserted in a court filing that it had abandoned the “anti-weaponization” fund.
But the two GOP senators have sought more assurances, including a written adjustment to the settlement agreement, according to Politico.
On Tuesday, Cornyn raised the possibility of postponing the committee vote until the issue of the fund is sorted out. “That’s being discussed. That’s being discussed, but hopefully it won’t be necessary,” the Texas Republican said, though he noted that he hasn’t discussed the idea with Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley yet.
The $1.8 billion fund has been controversial from the start, upending other Senate priorities as critics said it amounted to a slush fund to allow the president to pay out his supporters with taxpayer money. And even while the administration sought to convince lawmakers it was dead, Trump had refused himself to do so, exacerbating tensions on Capitol Hill.
Last week, Cornyn had said that he didn’t expect Grassley to postpone the vote. However, as the vote gets closer, that may change.
If the votes aren’t there to confirm him, Cornyn said Thursday, “then Sen. Grassley might decide to postpone it. But that’s not — I don’t think that’s the number one goal right now.”
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