{"id":1513235,"date":"2026-06-02T16:45:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=c298565a34ff9af82bfa8ce37967d15d"},"modified":"2026-06-08T05:53:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:53:21","slug":"acting-ag-blanche-says-trump-administration-is-nixing-anti-weaponization-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1513235","title":{"rendered":"Acting AG Blanche says Trump administration is nixing &#8216;Anti-Weaponization Fund&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/19e1c28295c30a1843058baa4ccd4da0.jpg\" alt\/><\/figure><p>(WASHINGTON) -- Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed during testimony before a House subcommittee on Tuesday that the Trump administration is backing down from establishing a $1.8 billion \"Anti-Weaponization Fund\" to benefit allies of President Donald Trump following heavy pressure from Republican congressional leadership.<\/p><p class=\"p1\"><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed during testimony before a House subcommittee on Tuesday that the Trump administration is backing down from establishing a $1.8 billion &#8220;Anti-Weaponization Fund&#8221; to benefit allies of Preside&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":1512026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/19e1c28295c30a1843058baa4ccd4da0.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1502,1449],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-heads","category-abc-political-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 08:50:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/19e1c28295c30a1843058baa4ccd4da0.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1513235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513491,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513235\/revisions\/1513491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1513235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1513235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1513235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}