Amanda Montgomery and her husband started AM and PM Hemp Farm in downstate Kirkland in 2020. After her husband passed unexpectedly last year, the farm, which produces and sells a range of hemp-derived goods, has been her “sole livelihood,” Montgomery said.

But the farm could go up in smoke when President Donald Trump signs the Republican-led spending deal to reopen the federal government that passed Congress late Wednesday.

“This bill would pretty much destroy my entire farm operation,” Montgomery said hours before the U.S. House approved the funding bill that includes the hemp restrictions, calling the move “unnecessary and cruel.”

Trump is expected to sign the funding package that ends a historically long government shutdown, but also included a last-minute provision narrowing the def

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