GOP’s Thom Tillis and Ted Budd pressured by agriculture sector over Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’

Duke University, Davidson College face ‘woke’ tax in ‘big beautiful bill’

Two schools in North Carolina — Duke University and Davidson College — might end up caught in the crossfire of President Donald Trump’s attempts to rein in “woke, elite” institutions.

Swing state voters beg their Republican senator to protect them from the Trump grift-ocracy

North Carolina has always been a conservative, business-friendly state in which lobbyists for corporate interests have generally had their way in the state Legislative Building under both Republicans and Democrats. From the days of tobacco, textiles and furniture to the modern era in which industries like banking, technology, construction and health care predominate, it’s been a rare instance in which lawmakers have said “no” to the policy dema…

GOP’s Thom Tillis and Ted Budd pressured by agriculture sector over Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’

EXCLUSIVE — North Carolina’s Republican senators are the targets of a new lobbying effort to oppose a provision in President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill that the agriculture industry fears would saddle the tobacco sector with more tariffs. Our…