The President tapped Blanche, his former personal attorney and the former deputy attorney general, to lead the Justice Department after Pam Bondi was removed from the position in April. But Blanche’s confirmation was upended last week when two Republican senators threatened to pull their support. The holdouts, Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, said that they wanted assurance from the Justice Department that the proposed $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” which was intended to compensate people the Trump Administration believed to have been unfairly targeted by the government, has been abandoned.
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Here’s what to know about that deal, and what it could mean for the President.
The agreement that the deal was a part of settled a $10 billion lawsuit Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization filed against the IRS and the Treasury Department in January over the leak of his tax returns to news outlets by a former contractor years earlier.
Blanche shared a document on X Sunday night in which he confirmed that the audit deal only applies to the parties named in the lawsuit. He also reiterated that the immunity plan “applies by its terms only retroactively.” That means that under the deal, while Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization could avoid audits of previously filed returns, they could still face audits of tax returns they file in the future.
“These assurances are not worth the paper they’re written on,” NYU Tax Law Center Policy Director Brandon DeBot said in a statement. “They don’t pull back on the ongoing attempts to give the President, his family, and his affiliates unauthorized immunity from tax audits.”
What does the agreement mean for Trump?
The amount in back taxes and penalties that the President may be able to avoid paying under the immunity deal is not clear, since audits conducted by the IRS are typically confidential information. But a 2024 report from the New York Times and ProPublica revealed that Trump could owe more than $100 million if a lengthy dispute related to an IRS audit over tax breaks that Trump claimed on his skyscraper in Chicago resulted in an adverse ruling. In May, the Times reported that it wasn’t known if that audit is still ongoing.
He contends that “it is not … [a] deal that anyone has considered and decided was in the best interests of the United States government; it’s simply in his and his family’s best interest, and he has the power to force the Justice Department to accept that.”
Last month, a federal judge ruled that Trump’s lawsuit was an exercise in self-dealing. While she didn’t explicitly overturn the tax audit deal conferred on Trump, the judge said that the deal can’t be claimed to be a product of a legitimate legal process. The President has filed an appeal.
Blanche “only has authority to resolve tax matters that have been referred to DOJ—here, a taxpayer privacy lawsuit, not issues with tax returns,” the Tax Law Center contended. “Likewise, to the extent that the new documents purport to maintain the May 19, 2026 order’s audit immunity for the Trump plaintiffs, that is also unauthorized."
The White House, IRS, and Treasury Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment
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