PRESS DIGEST-New York Times business news - December 8
Dec 8 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
- The House is expected to take up legislation this week that would authorize about $900 billion for the U.S. military, providing an increase over the White House's annual budget request.
- U.S Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday that he divested from his holdings of thousands of acres of North Dakota soybean farmland last week to comply with his federal ethics agreement.
- The Trump administration deported a planeload of Iranian citizens on a chartered plane to Iran on Sunday, according to two Iranian officials familiar with the details.
- The United Nations plans to reduce by half the amount of money it requests from donor countries in 2026 to help people affected by war and natural disasters, a consequence of the drastic cuts by the United States and European governments to their foreign aid budgets.
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