Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s bid to run the Justice Department hung in the balance Thursday as a handful of Senate Republicans vowed not to give him their votes — and President Trump threatened to yank his nominee over opposition to a nearly $1.8 billion so-called “weaponization” fund.

Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) have both opposed Blanche’s nomination in the Judiciary Committee until they receive confirmation in writing that the fund won’t be reconstituted — despite Blanche having testified that it was “dead” during a recent hearing.

“I have no objection to temporarily withdrawing Todd’s name, if they do not do the right thing, and putting him back after Cornyn and Tillis are out of office,” Trump posted on his Truth Social later Thursday.

Cornyn fired back in an X post: “POTUS is mistaken if he believes concerns about the provisions in his tax lawsuit settlement are limited to me and Senator Tillis.”

POTUS is mistaken if he believes concerns about the provisions in his tax lawsuit settlement are limited to me and Senator Tillis https://t.co/fKgD1qwF7x

— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) July 30, 2026

Trump sued the IRS for leaking his and his family members’ confidential tax returns to the New York Times in 2019. The case resulted in a May settlement with the DOJ that created the anti-weaponization fund worth $1.776 billion to be paid out to alleged victims of government overreach, including possibly defendants of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. (Read more from “Trump may Yank Todd Blanche for AG Nominee Over GOP Opposition to Weaponization Fund — on One Condition” HERE)