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Cornyn seemed to grow increasingly annoyed as the day dragged on. “Why don’t you call over the Department of Justice & tell them they have 1 hour & 50 minutes to get me what I asked for?” he said. “We actually sent them a red-line strikeout of what we need, & they just need to make a decision.”
In June, #ToddBlanche said he would drop a proposed $1.8 billion fund to compensate so-called “victims”🙄 [ #Jan6 insurgents] of Biden-era actions by the #DOJ but said a provision shielding #Trump & his family from tax investigations would remain in place.
The tax provision emerged as the biggest sticking point on the eve of a scheduled #Judiciary Cmte vote. Cornyn, a former state #judge who lost a primary to a #Trump backed challenger, Ken Paxton [total POS], said he had received no written assurances from #ToddBlanche that the #IRS audit shield would not apply to future tax liabilities or be extended to a wider circle of people.
That the fate of an #US attorney general would be jeopardized by the administration’s apparent determination to keep in place a #tax deal offering a sitting president enormous financial advantages illustrated a defining characteristic of #Trump’s second term∶ a president’s personal interest…is now a factor in governing.
Senator Cornyn repeatedly expressed astonishment on Wednesday that the #Trump admin did not simply comply with what he regarded as a narrow request to place limits on a deal.
Cornyn, stating that he was not “prepared to vote yes,” gave the #DOJ until 4PM to produce clear written guarantees on the fund & tax deal, & scrapped a scheduled meeting with Blanche on Wednesday morning.
That kicked off a day of frenetic back & forth, with no sign that #ToddBlanche was willing, or empowered, to trade a concession to secure his own elevation as the #Senate-confirmed leader of the #DOJ.
#Trump, speaking to reporters at the Oval Office, chalked up Cornyn’s resistance to the senator’s pique at his defeat at the hands of Paxton.🙄
Cornyn scoffed at the idea that he was on a vengeance trip, telling the herd of reporters trailing him from meetings, “That’s a convenient excuse & it happens to be untrue.”
#ToddBlanche, who can continue as “acting” attorney general indefinitely, cannot afford to lose a single #Republican vote if he hopes to gain a title he has long coveted.
He appears, for the moment, to be 2 short.
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