Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, on Wednesday indicated he was not prepared to back acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for a permanent appointment to the post.

Cornyn, who sits on the Judiciary Committee, has sought to extract concessions from the Trump administration in exchange for his support for advancing Blanche's nomination. Among those demands have been changes to the language of a settlement the DOJ reached with the IRS over President Donald Trump's suit related to the leak of his tax returns. He has also hoped to secure funding for AIDS relief in Africa.

“I haven’t seen a single piece of writing that is responsive to what I’ve requested," Cornyn said Wednesday, according to Politico. "Maybe they think I’m just going to give up or, you know, go along, but they’re mistaken.” 

Blanche is set to face a committee vote on Thursday and Cornyn has indicated that Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the committee chairman, set a 4 p.m. deadline for Cornyn to indicate whether he would back Blanche. Grassley has not commented on that assertion as of press time.

Cornyn recently lost reelection to a Trump-backed challenger in the form of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent at Just the News. Follow him on X.