President Donald Trump said on July 30 that he was willing to temporarily withdraw his nomination of Todd Blanche to be attorney general until next year, if two Republican senators continued to withhold their support.
Blanche’s nomination has been held up in the Senate Judiciary Committee after Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said they would not back bringing it to the floor for a full vote. Those two votes are necessary for the nomination to advance.
Both Tillis and Cornyn lost their bid for reelection earlier this year after Trump endorsed their opponents during the primaries. He now intends to wait them out, Trump said.
“I have no objection to temporarily withdrawing Todd’s name, if they do not do the right thing, and putting him back after Cornyn and Tillis are out of office,” he said in a Truth Social post.
In the meantime, Blanche will remain the acting head of the Department of Justice, he added.
