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Visit good to know facts.org. Good morning, everybody. I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punchable News. It's Monday, December 8th, 2025. Let's get into the next here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, the latest on

health care and defense with two weeks to go. Number two, Trump's NatSack strategy splits defense hawks.

And number three, the latest from the canvas will reveal whose staffers think is the most

effective congressional leader. All right, Jake, let's get down to it. We are two weeks to go time for

Capitol Hill. They have a ton to get done in particular when it comes to, of course, the annual

NDAA defense authorization package. It has passed for the past 64 years, but also a ton

happening on the health care front as lawmakers try to find a pathway forward or at least

a way forward for a vote, even if it's not successful before the end of the year.

You know, not a ton on, there's a ton on health care, but like not a ton at the same time.

Let's start with health care because the Obamacare deadline is coming in a couple weeks. I can't do the math on

how many days it is, maybe 23 days until that happens. Oh yeah, it's in the newsletter. It is 23 days.

Read that thing in the newsletter. It informs us all. I was looking at the date. I was like,

man, 31 minus 8. That's tough. That's tough math.

Yeah, math is tough for me.

And absent the leadership doing anything, which the leadership has been like kind of not doing anything, the rank and file is trying to make something happen.

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