July 30 (UPI) — Republican senators have postponed a vote on Todd Blanche’s nomination as attorney general amid concerns from two GOP senators over his handling of President Donald Trump’s IRS settlement, including its proposed so-called anti-weaponization fund.

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary was scheduled to vote on advancing Blanche’s nomination on Thursday morning, but a note on its website states it has been “postponed.” No new date has been announced.

The stalemate is the product of a dispute over a mid-May settlement agreement between the Internal Revenue Service and Trump and his two oldest sons. The Trumps had sued the IRS for $10 billion in damages over the actions of of a former contractors, since convicted and imprisoned, who leaked Trump’s tax returns for 2019 and 2020 to news organizations.

The Trumps dropped the lawsuit after reaching a settlement with the IRS that halted certain IRS audits involving Trump, his two sons and the Trump Organization. It also sought to create a $1.776 billion fund to compensate people claiming they were victims of political weaponization by the Justice Department, making people convicted of offenses related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack eligible for payments.

The fund faced strong bipartisan opposition and legal challenges, and a federal judge blocked its implementation.

Blanche has since said the fund is “dead,” but Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina are seeking written, binding assurances that it cannot be revived, because the provision remains in the signed settlement. They also object to the language protecting Trumps, his sons and the Trump Organization from certain IRS audits, saying it provides exceptionally broad protections unavailable to ordinary taxpayers.

“I am not prepared to vote yes,” Coryn told reporters earlier Wednesday.

He said they are also seeking assurances in writing that the settlement will only protect the Trumps from audits involving returns filed before the May 19 agreement and not afterward, consistent with Blanche’s recent testimony.

“I can see why he wants it, because it provides immunity from audits that no other taxpayer could possibly get and that’s why we need to conform the actual document to what Todd Blanche testified to under oath,” Coryn said.

A spokesperson for Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, confirmed Cornyn and Tillis are seeking assurances from the Justice Department regarding the Trump-IRS settlement and that Thursday’s vote has been postponed “as work continues to secure sufficient support” to advance Blanche’s nomination.

“Chairman Grassley works to set President Trump’s nominees up for success in committee, not failure,” the spokesperson said in a statement to media.