2026-06-02T16:56:00-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
作者：凯特琳·伊利克 政治记者
凯特琳·伊利克是CBSNews.com驻华盛顿特区的政治记者。她曾供职于《华盛顿观察家报》和《国会山报》，并入选美国国家新闻基金会2022年保罗·米勒华盛顿报道奖学金项目。
查看完整简历
卡莉·泰特尔鲍姆
更新于：2026年6月2日 / 美国东部时间下午7:18 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
华盛顿讯 ——代理司法部长托德·布兰奇周二表示，司法部不会推进其18亿美元的“反武器化”基金，该基金已成为国会中共和党议程的一大阻碍。
“我们不会推进该基金。仅此而已，”他在众议院拨款委员会听证会上对议员们说道。
“永远都不会推进了吗？”来自纽约的民主党众议员格蕾丝·孟问道。
“没错，”布兰奇回应道。
孟询问布兰奇是否会将这一承诺书面化。他答复称，听证会的 transcript 会将其记录在案。她在听证会后续环节再次提及此事，布兰奇依旧拒绝将任何内容书面化。
“如果我已经告诉你们我们的打算，为什么还要写下来？”他说道。
“你已经做出过书面承诺，所以合理的做法是也书面撤销它，”孟说道。
“我只是担心，因为你并没有宣誓作证，我们都想要信任你、相信你——但将其书面化可以解决这个问题，”孟补充道。
布兰奇的证词发布前一天，司法部表示，在一名地区法官临时叫停该项目设立的裁决后，该部门将停止推进该基金。
该基金遭到国会共和党人的强烈反对，他们警告称该基金可能危及共和党议程。一些共和党人周二仍表达保留意见，这阻碍了领导层推进国土安全部移民执法机构的拨款进程。
布兰奇的证词是否足以彻底说服共和党批评人士，还有待观察。该基金的设立原本也是一项法律和解协议的一部分，这引发了人们对布兰奇究竟打算如何放弃该项目的疑问。
“民主前进”组织主席兼首席执行官斯凯·佩里曼在一份声明中表示：“如果你能在电视上说出来，就应该在法庭上说出来。”该组织是起诉该基金的团体之一。
特朗普总统的律师没有立即回应置评请求，以确认他是否同意从和解协议中取消该基金。
该基金旨在向那些声称联邦政府“武器化”针对他们的个人提供纳税人资助的赔偿。但共和党对该计划的反对导致共和党领导人在上月底取消了国土安全部拨款的投票。民主党威胁要就该基金提出修正案投票，这让共和党陷入困境。由于一些共和党议员可能会倒向民主党一边，共和党领导人选择放弃他们的计划，离开国会进行为期一周的休会。
参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默周二称政府的表态“毫无价值”，并表示民主党仍计划强行投票废除该基金。
布兰奇在听证会上还对来自康涅狄格州的民主党众议员罗莎·德拉洛表示，由此前引发“反武器化”基金的特朗普与国税局之间的和解协议的其余部分仍然有效，包括政府同意不再审计这位总统及其家人此前的纳税申报单。她宣读了协议中有关为他们所有过往纳税申报单上的所有民事或刑事税务行为提供豁免的条款。
“但你正在推进这第二项指令，”她说道。
“这不会推进。有一项和解协议，”布兰奇回应道。“作为国税局和解协议的惯例，国税局与特朗普总统及其家人和公司达成了这项和解协议，其中还有一项单独的司法部长指令。”
在布兰奇周二作证之前，参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩表示，参议员们在共和党午餐会上就该基金以及如何推进相关事宜进行了“充分讨论”，并指出布兰奇将于当天晚些时候作证。
“几个小时前我和他谈过，他大致预览了他要讲的内容，”图恩说道。“我认为他的声明将非常明确、清晰，将带来我们希望所有议员和众议院议员也需要的确定性，以便我们推进和解法案。”
但图恩补充道，“我现在不能保证这会发生”，并称与共和党议员的对话仍在继续。
“一切最终都取决于票数——问题是，我们有没有足够的票数？我们有没有50票来推动这类法案在议会通过？”他说道。“我们必须让共和党人团结一致才能做到这一点。”
在布兰奇作证前，图恩向CBS新闻证实，据他了解，该基金已经不再考虑范围内。
离开午餐会的参议院共和党人表示，他们将期待布兰奇的证词带来保证，比如来自路易斯安那州的参议员约翰·肯尼迪，他表示“如果一切如我们被告知的那样发展，我们很有可能会迅速推进和解程序。”
但德克萨斯州共和党参议员、前共和党党鞭约翰·科尼恩告诉CBS新闻：“我不确定这对一些人来说是否足够。”
众议院议长迈克·约翰逊周二表示，该基金“已不在考虑范围内”。约翰逊周一在白宫与特朗普总统会面。
“我告诉他，就目前的投票情况来看，这是一个棘手的提议，”当被CBS新闻问及他是否鼓励特朗普总统放弃该基金时，约翰逊说道。“我理解该提议背后的意图非常高尚……但我认为人们没有完全理解它，这也让它变得棘手。”
尼科尔·基利安为本报道做出了贡献。
Blanche says DOJ “not moving forward” with $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund
2026-06-02T16:56:00-0400 / 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.
Read Full Bio
Callie Teitelbaum
Updated on: June 2, 2026 / 7:18 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Tuesday that the Justice Department is not moving forward with its $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that has become a major obstacle to the GOP agenda in Congress.
“We are not moving forward with the fund. Period,” he told lawmakers on the House Appropriations Committee.
“Not moving forward ever?” Democratic Rep. Grace Meng of New York asked.
“Correct,” Blanche responded.
Meng asked whether Blanche would put that commitment in writing. He responded that it would be in writing through a transcript of the hearing. She followed up on the point later in the hearing and Blanche again declined to commit to put anything in writing.
“Why do I need to put something in writing if I’m telling you what we’re doing?” he said.
“You established it in writing, so it just makes sense to rescind it in writing,” Meng said.
“I’m just concerned ’cause you’re not under oath, and I want to trust you and I want to believe you — we all do — but putting it in writing would settle that issue,” Meng added.
Blanche’s testimony comes a day after the Justice Department said it will stop work on the fund following a district judge’s decision temporarily blocking the establishment of the program.
The fund faced intense pushback from Republicans on Capitol Hill, who warned that it threatened to imperil the GOP agenda. Some Republicans continued to express reservations Tuesday that prevented leaders from moving forward with funding the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration enforcement agencies.
Whether Blanche’s testimony proves definitive enough to win over GOP detractors remains to be seen. The establishment of the fund was also part of a legal settlement, raising questions about how exactly Blanche intends to abandon the program.
Skye Perryman, the president and CEO Democracy Forward, one of the groups that sued over the fund, said in a statement: “If you can say it on TV, you should say it in court.”
Lawyers for President Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether he has agreed to drop the fund from the settlement.
The fund aimed to provide taxpayer-funded payouts to individuals who alleged the federal government had been “weaponized” against them. But Republican opposition to the plan led GOP leaders to scrap a vote on the DHS funding late last month. Democrats threatened to force votes on amendments on the fund, putting Republicans in a difficult position. And with some GOP members likely to join Democrats, GOP leaders opted to abandon their plans and leave town for a weeklong recess.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday called the administration’s words “worthless” and said Democrats still plan to force votes on abolishing the fund.
Blanche also told Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut during the hearing that the rest of the settlement between the IRS and Mr. Trump, from which the weaponization fund stemmed, remains in place, including the government’s agreement to refrain from auditing any of the president or his family’s previous tax returns. She read the portion of the agreement that would provide them with immunity from all civil or criminal tax actions on all prior tax returns.
“But you are moving forward with this second order,” she said.
“It’s not moving forward. There’s a settlement,” Blanche replied. “There’s a settlement that the IRS entered into with President Trump and others, his family and his companies, as part of that settlement, as is customary in IRS settlements, and there’s a separate AG order.”
Ahead of Blanche’s testimony on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said senators had a “robust conversation” about the fund and how to proceed at their GOP lunch meeting, while pointing out that Blanche would testify later in the afternoon.
“I had a conversation with him a couple hours ago, in which he kind of previewed what he was going to say,” Thune said. “And I think his statements are going to be very definitive, very clear, and create this certainty that I hope all of our members and House members need as well in order for us to proceed on the reconciliation bill.”
But Thune added, “I’m not guaranteeing that happens yet,” saying conversations continue with GOP members.
“Everything dumbs down to a function of math — it’s, do we have the votes? Do we have 50 votes to execute on getting a bill like that across the floor?” he said. “We have to have Republicans hanging together in order to do that.”
Thune affirmed to CBS News ahead of the testimony that it’s his understanding that the fund is off the table.
Senate Republicans leaving the lunch meeting indicated that they would be looking to Blanche’s testimony for assurances, like Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, who said “if it goes like we are told it will go, there’s a reasonable possibility we will move pretty quickly to the reconciliation.”
But Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican and the former GOP whip, told CBS News, “I’m not sure that’s going to be good enough for some people.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that the fund was “off the table for consideration.” Johnson met with Mr. Trump at the White House on Monday.
“I told him that it was a difficult prospect right now, given our vote tallies,” Johnson said when asked by CBS News if he encouraged Mr. Trump to drop the fund. “I understand the intent behind it was a very noble thing. … But I don’t think it was fully understood, and that’s what it made it a difficult thing.”
Nikole Killion contributed to this report.
发表回复