Liberal Dems Lining Up Behind Budget Deal

“Jair Bolsonaro, former president of Brazil, wants to return to power and said he believes U. S. President-elect Donald Trump will help make that happen, possibly by using economic sanctions against the current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Banned from running for office until 2030 and facing criminal charges for allegedly plotting a coup, Bolsonaro said he sees Trump’s election as a game-changer for his future and politicians on the right in Latin America.

“As the Democratic Party reels from devastating losses — in the presidential contest, the race to control the Senate and its bid to regain control of the House — its national committee is searching for a new chair. Whoever lands that critical role will be charged with shepherding the party out of the woods and into a new era,” the New York Times reports. “Jaime Harrison, the current chair of the Democratic National Committee, has decided not to seek re-election.

“Multiple U. S. House and Senate Democrats from Connecticut including the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee said Thursday they were the targets of bomb threats,” Axios reports.

“President Bill Clinton was so enraged by the treatment of his wife, Hillary, during her failed presidential bid that he couldn’t sleep for two years, he now admits – or stop complaining about the shock defeat,” the Daily Mail reports. “Writing in his new memoir, an emotional Clinton issues an apology to all those who found him hard going in the years following the 2016 contest, won by Donald Trump, which he describes as ‘the darkest election possible in the United States.’”

Daily Beast: “Social media footage has provided a glimpse into Mar-a-Lago as Donald Trump celebrated Thanksgiving with his family and closest allies. Elon Musk–still at the Florida residence–received a standing ovation at the dinner Thursday as the crowd roared in approval.”

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