GOP holdouts say they will back Blanche’s attorney general nomination after striking deal over fundWASHINGTON (AP) – Two Republican senators who threatened to block acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s bid to lead the Justice Department said Monday that they will vote to advance his nomination, ending an impasse over plans to create a fund to compensate allies of President Donald Trump. “I think as far as Blanche and the Department of Justice, we were pretty much on the same page,” Cornyn said Thursday. Blanche, who served as Trump’s defense lawyer in his criminal cases, entered the Justice Department last year as deputy attorney general. After the Thursday vote was delayed, Trump said in a social media post that he might pull Blanche’s nomination and resubmit it after Cornyn and Tillis leave office next year. The Justice Department said the court’s demands were “unnecessary.”