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Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Nandita Bose and Richard Cowan

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Trump admin drops weaponisation fund after backlash - Caught on Camera

The Trump administration is abandoning the president's nearly $US1.8 billion "weaponisation" ‌fund, US Acting Attorney-General Todd Blanche has told lawmakers, after a rare backlash from Republican senators.

"We are not moving forward with the fund," ‌Blanche said on Tuesday.

"Period."

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