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Alaska Republican is concerned that proposed fund to compensate January 6 rioters will proceed even though Blanche confirmed it was dead Lisa Murkowski, Alaska’s moderate Republican senator, announced early on Friday that she will not vote for Donald Trump’s nomination of Todd Blanche as US attorney general, leaving his elevation from “acting” to official confirmation in the post even narrower. Murkowski issued a statement expressing her concerns that the Trump administration could proceed with its proposed fund to compensate rioters who invaded the US Capitol on January 6 in a failed attempt to overturn Joe Biden’s defeat of Trump in the 2020 presidential election. She took her stance even though Blanche confirmed in writing the controversial fund was dead. Experts say Trump could easily reverse it. Murkowski said the Senate only currently has leverage over the fund because Blanche’s nomination to head the Department of Justice is pending necessary confirmation by the upper congressional chamber.
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