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作者：凯特琳·伊利克 政治记者
凯特琳·伊利克是CBSNews.com总部位于华盛顿特区的政治记者。她曾供职于《华盛顿考察家报》和《国会山报》，并入选2022年美国国家新闻基金会保罗·米勒华盛顿报道奖学金项目。
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华盛顿讯 —— 得克萨斯州共和党参议员特德·克鲁兹表示，周四他与代理司法部长托德·布兰奇就司法部新设立的“反武器化基金”举行的两小时会谈“是我在参议院任职期间见过的最激烈的会议之一”。
“现场爆发了史诗级的激烈冲突，”克鲁兹周五在其播客中说道，“用‘火药味十足’都不足以形容。”
布兰奇被派往国会山，试图说服持怀疑态度的共和党议员放弃反对这项近18亿美元的基金，该基金将用于赔偿那些声称自己遭到政治迫害的人。这项基金的设立是特朗普总统起诉国税局一案和解协议的一部分，此时参议院正准备就一项和解法案进行投票，该法案将在特朗普总统任期结束前为边境安全和移民执法提供资金。
这项和解法案与司法部基金无关，但民主党人誓言要在参议院就拨款法案的投票马拉松期间，发起针对该基金的修正案投票，预计这场投票将于周四启动。然而，在与布兰奇会面后，议员们取消了投票，回家参加阵亡将士纪念日休会。
“我们原本会输掉这些修正案投票，因为在场的40多名共和党议员中，我认为有一半准备在这个问题上与民主党人站在一起，”克鲁兹说，“如果本周没有宣布这项判决赔偿基金，我们现在应该已经在参议院会议厅投票通过边境安全拨款了。”
“我们会看到拜登政府至少会对这项基金做出调整，因为如果他们不这么做，参议院就会出现全面反抗，”他补充道。
克鲁兹表示，53名共和党参议员中约有45人出席了会议，“至少有一半人在斥责司法部长，他们非常愤怒”。
“他们冲着代理司法部长大喊大叫，”他说，“多名参议员都在对司法部长怒吼——场面一点都不平静，就是在吼叫——他们表示这看起来像是自我交易。”
克鲁兹说，布兰奇试图向议员们保证，特朗普及其家人，以及那些袭击警察或与2021年1月6日国会山骚乱相关的暴力行为者，都没有资格获得该基金的赔偿。一些1月6日骚乱的涉案人员已经表示，他们打算申请赔偿。
“托德·布兰奇态度坚决，他不仅说‘不行’，还说‘绝对不行’，”克鲁兹回忆起议员们就1月6日骚乱涉案人员问题提出担忧时布兰奇的回应。
司法部发言人周四在一份声明中表示，此次会议包含“关于和解协议的坦诚讨论”。
“布兰奇明确表示，周一宣布的反武器化基金与和解法案无关，实际上总统在和解法案中寻求的资金中，没有一分钱会用于与该基金相关的任何事项，”该发言人说道，“我们将继续与参议院合作，推动关键的和解资金获得批准。”
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Sen. Ted Cruz says Blanche faced “full-on revolt” over “anti-weaponization fund” in meeting with GOP senators
2026-05-22T18:33:00-0400 / CBS News
By Caitlin Yilek Politics Reporter
Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship with the National Press Foundation.
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Updated on: May 22, 2026 / 6:34 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington — Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said a two-hour meeting Thursday with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche about the Justice Department’s new “anti-weaponization fund” was “one of the roughest meetings I’ve seen in my entire time in the Senate.”
“There were fireworks at an epic level,” Cruz said Friday on his podcast. “Fiery does not begin to cut it.”
Blanche was dispatched to the Capitol to try and convince skeptical Republican lawmakers to drop their opposition to the nearly $1.8 billion fund to pay people who claim they were politically persecuted. The announcement of the fund — part of a settlement to resolve President Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS — came as senators prepared to vote on a reconciliation package to fund border security and immigration enforcement through the end of Mr. Trump’s term.
The reconciliation measure is unrelated to the Justice Department fund, but Democrats vowed to force votes on amendments targeting the fund during the Senate’s vote-a-rama on the funding package, which was expected to begin Thursday. Instead, lawmakers canceled votes after the Blanche meeting and went home for the Memorial Day recess.
“We were going to lose those amendment votes because of the 40-plus Republicans in the room, I’d say half of them were ready to vote with the Democrats on this,” Cruz said. “If the judgment fund had not been announced this week, we would be right now on the Senate floor, we’d be funding border security.”
“We will see the administration announcing at a minimum a modification of this, because if they don’t, they’ve got a full-on revolt in the Senate,” he added.
Cruz said about 45 of the 53 Senate Republicans were attendance and “at least half of them were blasting the attorney general and they were pissed.”
“They were screaming at the acting attorney general,” he said. “There were multiple senators who were yelling at the attorney general — and it was not calm, it was yelling — and they were saying this feels like self-dealing.”
Cruz said Blanche tried to assure senators that Mr. Trump and his family, as well as those who assaulted police officers or committed acts of violence connected to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, would not be eligible for pay outs from the fund. Some Jan. 6 defendants have already said they intend to apply for payouts.
“Todd Blanche was adamant, and he said not just ‘no,’ but ‘hell no,’” Cruz recalled about the response to senators’ concerns about the Jan. 6 defendants.
In a statement Thursday, a Justice Department spokesperson said the meeting included “a healthy discussion on the settlement.”
“Blanche made clear that the Anti-Weaponization Fund announced Monday has nothing to do with reconciliation, indeed not a single dime from the money the President is seeking in reconciliation would go toward anything having to do with the Fund,” the spokesperson said. “We will continue to work with the Senate to get critical reconciliation funds approved.”
Alan He contributed to this report.
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