The U.S. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday issued a formal order terminating President Donald Trump's controversial $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund,” removing a major hurdle ahead of his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation vote.

The move follows weeks of negotiations with two Republican senators who were blocking his nomination to become attorney general.

While Blanche has repeatedly said publicly that the fund was dead, the justice department had resisted formally confirming that in writing.

That had drawn concern........

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