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Independent Nebraska Senate candidate and former labor union leader running a populist campaign against Ricketts.
Nebraska ranchers who voted for Trump object to his 300,000-metric-ton duty-free beef import as steel and diesel costs rise, the BBC reported. The cost squeeze is documented in dollars, while the case for a political break rests on two interviews.
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Trump signed an order Monday letting anyone buy tax-exempt red-dye diesel and said it would save truckers more than $100 per fill-up. How much fleets actually save depends on four federal departments expanding access and on states choosing to suspend their own diesel taxes.
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Trump rallies for Sen. Pete Ricketts in Nebraska, a state he won by 20 points, as prediction-market pricing gives independent Dan Osborn a 26.5% chance. Ricketts wants the beef import plan dropped, so the visit pits Trump's grocery-price goal against a seat once thought safe.
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More than 15 candidates have signed a five-point pledge on data centers and AI. It stops short of a moratorium, which a Republican governor in Texas has already imposed.
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Democrats need a net four seats to take the chamber. The variable that bites banks sooner is who inherits the Banking Committee slots that Sherrod Brown, Andy Barr and Roy Cooper are chasing.
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