{"id":98999,"date":"2026-08-05T09:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/sen-cornyn-theres-nothing-we-could-do-to-rein-in-trump-on-doj-anti-weaponization-fund\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T09:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:42:28","slug":"sen-cornyn-theres-nothing-we-could-do-to-rein-in-trump-on-doj-anti-weaponization-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/sen-cornyn-theres-nothing-we-could-do-to-rein-in-trump-on-doj-anti-weaponization-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Cornyn: &#8220;There&#8217;s Nothing We Could Do To Rein In&#8221; Trump on DOJ Anti-Weaponization Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Sen. John Cornyn told reporters Tuesday following the Senate Judiciary Committee&#8217;s vote to advance Todd Blanche&#8217;s attorney general nomination that there&#8217;s nothing we could do to rein in President Donald Trump.  Well, there&#8217;s nothing we could do to rein in the president when he said he likes the fund and he wishes it still exists. But the fact of the matter [is] it&#8217;s dead, and that&#8217;s all we could do under these circumstances, Cornyn (R-TX) said.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/08\/04\/sen_cornyn_theres_nothing_we_could_do_to_rein_in_trump_on_doj_anti-weaponization_fund.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. John Cornyn told reporters Tuesday following the Senate Judiciary Committee&#8217;s vote to advance Todd Blanche&#8217;s attorney general nomination that there&#8217;s nothing we could do to rein in President Donald Trump. Well, there&#8217;s nothing we could do to rein in the president when he said he likes the fund and he wishes it still exists. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29420,19065,216,6994,2304,23617,12844,7433,5395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}