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Trump Urges Tractor Makers to Cut Costs as Vexed Farmers Get Aid
finance.yahoo.com

... President Donald Trump pressured farm-equipment manufacturers to drop prices for tractors as he announced $12 billion in farmer relief, his latest efforts to address Americans' concerns about shaky economic conditions under his leadership.

Trump said Monday that his administration would give companies such as Deere & Co. permission to "take off a lot of the environmental restrictions that they have on machinery," blaming them for driving up costs for farmers.

The long-awaited farmer relief is a tacit acknowledgment that the president's sweeping global tariffs have burdened some American businesses, including farmers, by contributing to price pressures and shrinking export markets. ...


Congress will vote on limiting Hegseth's travel budget unless he releases unedited video of boat strikes
There is bipartisan support to release the full video of the controversial strikes that day.
www.wbaltv.com

Tucked into Congress' massive defense policy bill is a provision that would limit Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's travel budget unless he provides the House and Senate Armed Services committees with unedited video of U.S. military strikes in the Caribbean.

The mandate in the must-pass piece of legislation " known as the National Defense Authorization Act " would withhold a quarter of the budget unless the Pentagon provides lawmakers "video of strikes conducted against designated terrorist organizations in the area of responsibility of the United States Southern Command."

It comes as a Sept. 2 "double-tap" strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean has come under intense scrutiny on Capitol Hill.

Sen. Cotton says he has no objection to releasing video of strike that killed two survivors
www.pbs.org

... A video of a U.S. military strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean that killed two survivors of the initial attack shows "nothing remarkable," the Republican who leads the Senate Intelligence Committee said Sunday, and he would not oppose its public release if the Pentagon were to declassify it.

Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, who backs President Donald Trump's campaign against suspected drug smugglers, is partially aligning himself with Trump and top Democrats in favor of releasing the video of the Sept. 2 attack. ...


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Trump's former lawyer Alina Habba resigning as top federal prosecutor in New Jersey
www.scrippsnews.com

... President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, Alina Habba, said Monday she is resigning as the top federal prosecutor for New Jersey, giving up her fight to stay in the job after an appeals court said she had been serving in the post unlawfully.

In a statement posted on social media, Habba assailed the court's ruling as political, but said she was resigning "to protect the stability and integrity" of her office.

"But do not mistake compliance for surrender," she said, adding that the administration would continue its appeal. "This decision will not weaken the Justice Department and it will not weaken me."

Habba said she would remain with the Justice Department as a senior advisor to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. ...



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