Blanche meeting with GOP senators in bid to protect 'anti-weaponization' fund
Key takeaways
- Blanche is on Capitol Hill to talk to skeptical lawmakers about why the fund is needed and how it would be administered.
- Senate Republicans are discussing adding language to the budget reconciliation package to put guardrails on how the proposed $1.8 billion legal compensation fund would be distributed.
- “Our members want to hear an explanation about how this would work,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said of what his GOP colleagues want to hear from Blanche about the “anti-weaponization” fund.
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Blanche is on Capitol Hill to talk to skeptical lawmakers about why the fund is needed and how it would be administered. His visit comes amid growing concern among Senate Republicans about the proposal, which Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) has called a legal “slush fund.” He walked into the meeting with Senate Republicans in the Capitol s Mansfield Room shortly after 11 am Thursday.
Senate Republicans are discussing adding language to the budget reconciliation package to put guardrails on how the proposed $1.8 billion legal compensation fund would be distributed.
“Our members want to hear an explanation about how this would work,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said of what his GOP colleagues want to hear from Blanche about the “anti-weaponization” fund.