North Dakota senators tried to kill Chinese corn mill project amid national security review: emails


As a North Dakota city awaits a national security review for a controversial proposed Chinese corn mill in its midst, the state’s two Republican senators personally urged local officials to kill the project without waiting for the probe’s conclusion, public records released by the municipal administration to a local news agency showed.

The revelation came in the form of emails dated August 18 and sent hours after a conference call involving North Dakota’s two US Senators, Kevin Cramer and John Hoeven, Governor Doug Burgum, US Representative Kelly Armstrong and Grand Forks Mayor Brandon Bochenski.

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