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The Daily Cartoon: the enforcement mechanism

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A gray-haired man behind a nameplate reading 'MR. BLANCHE' says 'The weaponization fund is dead,' a lawmaker leaning over a dais points and asks 'Pinky promise?', and someone off-panel replies 'No,' before rows of seated committee members and a U.S. flag.
A gray-haired man behind a nameplate reading 'MR. BLANCHE' says 'The weaponization fund is dead,' a lawmaker leaning over a dais points and asks 'Pinky promise?', and someone off-panel replies 'No,' before rows of seated committee members and a U.S. flag. Drawn to the desk editor’s direction · rendered with AI image tools

Drawn off the desk's audit of the Blanche confirmation hearings, where senators asked for the weaponization fund to be declared dead in writing rather than in testimony.

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