Prior to Blanche's two posts on Sunday, Trump himself gave conflicting statements on the future of both the fund and his nomination of Blanche to be America's top law enforcement official.

On Friday, he said the fund was "dead", but he subsequently threatened over the weekend to put the plan back on the table if members of his party did not move to approve Blanche.

In recent days, he also said he was considering withdrawing Blanche's nomination to be attorney general because the process was stalled.

The US Senate judiciary committee has a meeting scheduled for Tuesday, which could include a vote on Blanche's nomination.

But Blanche's public statements to senators that the proposal had been scrapped were not enough to satisfy the Republican holdouts.

The two senators who went on to stall Blanche's confirmation were John Cornyn and Thom Tillis, whose terms both expire in January.

A Cornyn spokesperson told the BBC's US partner CBS News that the senator had "reached an agreement with the Department of Justice" about the fund.

Tillis has not yet commented. But in his most recent comments on the issue, which responded to Trump's threat to revive the plan, Tillis expressed concern that the president was still harbouring a plan to set up a "payout pot for punks".

He said the political impasse was "unfortunate" because he did consider Blanche, who is Trump's former personal lawyer, to be qualified for the attorney general job.

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