March 14, 2025

politics

Investment

Trump and GM CEO discuss $60 billion investment amid tariff war

David Shepardson  |  Reuters Trump grants one-month tariff exemption for major automakers President Donald Trump granted a one-month tariff exemption to any autos coming from Mexico and Canada for Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis. President Donald Trump met General Motors GM.N CEO Mary Barra on Wednesday to discuss the automaker’s investment plans amid his tariff war, a White House

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Funds

Farmers sue Trump over frozen Inflation Reduction Act funds

REUTERS/GARY CAMERON/FILE PHOTO The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seen in Washington, in March 2012. Several U.S. farmers and nonprofits filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration today, arguing it is illegally withholding Department of Agriculture grants funded by the Inflation Reduction Act. Several U.S. farmers and nonprofits filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration

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Funds

USDA’s local food purchasing cut will cost Florida producers millions

President Donald Trump’s efforts to curb federal spending have hit the Department of Agriculture, which has cut over $1 billion in funding aimed at helping schools and food banks purchase from local farmers. States recently learned about the cuts, which will cut funding for the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program (LFS) and the

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Property

Land Bank donating properties to Habitat | News

The Baldwin County Land Bank Authority, which met for only the second time since its creation in July 2023, voted Tuesday night to donate two properties to Habitat for Humanity. The meeting was held in the county commission chambers of the government complex. Land Bank Authority Chairman Ryan Frier told board members that the first

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Property

Measure 4 would punish the locals who kept property taxes low

MINOT — Measure 4, a proposed constitutional amendment put on the November ballot through the petitioning process, would do two things. First, it would prohibit any ad valorem tax on property. This is to say that the State of North Dakota and its various political subdivisions would not be able to tax your property value.

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Funds

Terre Haute mayor looks to ‘capital stacking’ for project funds | Local News

Capital stacking has become Terre Haute Mayor Brandon Sakbun’s go-to method of raising funds for city projects. The practice involves doggedly searching for financing from every possible source — local to federal tax dollars, numerous state and federal grants, philanthropic and nonprofit organizations, American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding and, pivotally, private investment. This is

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Funds

Southern WV Counties Receive Federal Funds to Enhance Election Security | WV News

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Crypto

Trump promotes family crypto ‘The DeFiant Ones’ on Truth Social

Former President Donald Trump promoted his family’s upcoming cryptocurrency platform called “The DeFiant Ones” in a Truth Social post on Thursday.  Trump shared the post with his 7.5 million followers Thursday morning, which son Donald Trump Jr. shared with his 12 million followers on X less than half an hour later.  “For too long, the

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Crypto

Crypto scam wrecks Kansas bank, sends CEO to prison

The former CEO of a small Kansas bank was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for looting the bank of $47 million — which he sent to cryptocurrency wallets controlled by scammers who had duped him in a “pig butchering” scheme that appealed to his greed, federal prosecutors said. The massive embezzlement by

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Funds

Gentner Drummond cites potential ‘deadly consequences’

Attorney General Gentner Drummond issued a formal opinion Sunday directing Ryan Walters to release to school districts millions of dollars in security funds appropriated by the Oklahoma Legislature in the wake of 2022’s deadly Uvalde, Texas, school shooting. Drummond’s formal opinion, which has the force of law, found that districts can carry over funds from

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