President Donald Trump on Sunday said negotiations with Iran will resume on Monday after confirming he decided to hold off on ordering new strikes against Tehran.“It was going to be a massive attack,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One. “It was going to be an attack that would have been by far the biggest attack since World War II. But they’ve asked us not to do it, they said ‘please, don’t do it,’ and their neighbors said that too.”Trump added that he expected talks to resume on Monday afternoon.Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei has since said there are no ongoing negotiations with the U.S., according to Reuters, raising questions about the future of the conflict.Senate Leaders Reach Funding Deal To Avoid Shutdown During Campaign SeasonKey senators unveiled a short-term spending bill on Sunday that would keep federal agencies funded past the midterm elections and into early December as they look to avoid a government shutdown during the middle of campaign season.The Senate is likely to vote on the measure before leaving Washington at week’s end for its traditional August recess, a period that many lawmakers want to spend shoring up their reelection prospects rather than working in the nation’s capital.Read more at The Associated Press:Japan, U.S. Confirm Joint Yen-Buying InterventionJapan and the United States conducted coordinated yen-buying intervention and will not hesitate to take further action, Japan’s finance ministry said on Monday, confirming a rare bilateral action to halt the yen’s slide to fresh 40-year lows.The move underscored both countries’ resolve to prevent a selloff in the yen and Japanese government bonds (JGBs) from causing global spillovers, such as adding upward pressure on already rising U.S. Treasury yields, analysts said.The joint intervention was the first since 2011′s coordinated action to weaken the yen following the devastating earthquake in eastern Japan.President Donald Trump said on Sunday the United States was helping Japan prop up the yen as a sign of friendship and to help the world economy.Read more at Reuters:Blanche Rescinds Fund For Trump SupportersActing Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a formal order late Sunday terminating President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” to compensate his political allies, a move that follows weeks of negotiations with two Republican senators who were blocking his nomination to become attorney general.A spokeswoman for Texas Sen. John Cornyn, one of the senators holding up Blanche’s nomination, confirmed the deal, which comes ahead of a Tuesday confirmation vote for Blanche’s nomination in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The other GOP senator, North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, did not have immediate comment.Read more at The Associated Press:Read More From HuffPostFor previous updates from HuffPost, click here.