The Trump administration is expressing confidence Cuba will fall, but there are concerns the US doesn’t have a plan.

Avelo will cease operations for the government on January 27.

The House will vote Thursday to override two vetoes by President Donald Trump of GOP-backed bills, according to three people granted anonymity to share scheduling plans not yet made public. And barring any major, last-minute GOP defections, senior House Republicans and Democrats generally expect the chamber will approve the overrides in a rare rebuke of Trump — though leaders expect some Republicans who initially supported the bills to now fall in line with Trump’s wishes. Less clear is whether either override vote would have enough support in the Senate, but one of the bills Trump vetoed in December was endorsed by Florida’s Republican senators. The underlying legislation would support the local Miccosukee Tribe, which has been at odds with the White House over the administration’s plans to build its “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention center. The other bill Trump scuttled last month would fund a water infrastructure project in Colorado, which is currently ensnared in the president’s fight with the state’s Congressional delegation over cuts to a climate center in the state. The project sits in the district of Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, who also defied Trump and earned the White House’s ire by backing a discharge petition to force the release of the Jeffrey Epstein-related documents.

Two Latin American strongmen were charged with drug trafficking. One was captured as part of a military raid, the other is free thanks to a Trump pardon.

There are no grand designs, just vanity and vindictiveness.