Acting attorney general says Trump’s $1.8bn anti-weaponization fund is dead

Todd Blanche told House committee that federal government is ceasing effort to create controversial fund

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The federal government is abandoning an effort to create a $1.8bn secretive fund to compensate Donald Trump’s allies, the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, said on Tuesday.

“We are not moving forward with the fund, period,” Blanche said during a House appropriations committee hearing on Tuesday.