Democratic lawmakers are warning they’ll move to unwind any Paramount Skydance takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery , blasting the hostile bid’s backing from Saudi, Qatari and UAE sovereign wealth funds — and Jared Kushner’s private-equity firm — as a national security threat.
Two Democrat members of Congress — Reps. Sam Liccardo (D-Calif.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) — sent a letter to the board of WBD as well as to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday expressing concern over potential national security risks that could arise from allowing foreign entities to control one of the country’s largest entertainment conglomerates.
“Future Congresses … will review many of the decisions of the current administration, and may recommend that regulators push for divestitures, which would

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