How do the US midterms affect Brazil?

Democrats won control of both the House and the Senate in Tuesday’s US midterms. They secured their largest House majority in nearly 20 years and flipped Senate seats in states that hadn’t voted their way in decades. After two years of tariffs, sanctions against Brazilian officials and canceled visas, what does a Congress run by Donald Trump’s opponents mean for Brazil? Gustavo Ribeiro, editor-in-chief of The Brazilian Report, talks with James Green of Brown University and the Brazil Office Alliance, recorded just hours after the results came in. They cover how much say Congress actually has over US foreign policy and why Brazil is likely to stay on the back burner while Democrats focus on the war in Iran, the cost of living and investigations into the Trump administration. They also discuss whether congressional hearings on Flávio Bolsonaro’s stay in the US could come in the second half of 2027. And they look at where a Democratic Congress may be no friendlier to Brasília, from protectionist instincts on trade to the politics of data centers, and at which lawmakers could become key voices on the bilateral relationship.