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Good morning, I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bull News. It's Wednesday, January 17th, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, the four corners go to the White House.

Number two, the clash over DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifying.

And number three, the Senate GOP have issues with the tax deal.

All right, Jake, let's get into it.

The top of Punchable News a.m.

We are all over this four corners meeting at the White House and basically just how different of a page President Joe Biden is, not only with Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, but how even those two are on different pages. Yes, we scooped this

news yesterday that the House and Senate leadership are

heading to the White House today at 3 something p.m. I think it's 3.15 p.m. Yep, 3.15 p.m.

for a meeting that Joe Biden has called on the National Security Supplemental.

Now, let's run through the background if you don't know it already, which I assume you do.

The Republicans have been holding up the National Security Supplemental, which provides aid to Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel over a desire to get border funding.

Now, there's two dynamics going on.

Mitch McConnell wants this, a border deal to work out between James Lankford, Chris Murphy,

and Kirsten Sinema.

Now, he implored Republicans to take this deal in a meeting last week.

Mike Johnson wants nothing to do with this deal.

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