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United States livestock slaugher highlights from the USDA for August 2021.

The U.S. is (once again) staring down the barrel of a government shutdown.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture adjusts Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program benefits to reflect changes in food prices once a year. The government agency will take two other factors into account when it increases those benefits, which help people buy food, on Oct. 1, 2021.

The U.S. government may be on the verge of spending as much as US$4.5 trillion in what could be one of the biggest investments in infrastructure and the social safety net in decades.

Congress faces a potential government shutdown this week as Democrats and Republicans wrestle over several trillion dollars in federal spending.

A recent Washington demonstration supporting those charged with crimes for the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol fizzled, with no more than 200 demonstrators showing up. The organizers had promised 700 people would turn out - or more.

And several surveys have shown that as many as half of unvaccinated workers insist they would leave their jobs if forced to get the shot. But how many will actually follow through?

Quarterly hogs and pigs inventory report for the USDA mountain states region.

Congress suspended the debt ceiling in 2019 for two years, ending July 31, 2021. Since then, the U.S. Treasury Department has taken emergency measures that allow it to keep borrowing without an increase in the limit.

Autumn is here, and that means the risk of hitting deer on rural roads and highways is rising, especially around dusk and during a full moon.