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The Daily Punch

A short but busy week in the Senate

The Daily Punch

Punchbowl News

Politics, News, Government

4.6666 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Congress responds to the assassination and attempted assassination of two Minnesota state lawmakers. Plus, Senate Finance Committee Republicans will release long-awaited legislative text for its portion of Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress? Subscribe to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter at punchbowl.news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Broad to you by Punchable News. It's Monday, June 16th, 2025. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, security concerns loom large for lawmakers. Number two, the latest on reconciliation. And number three, lawmakers weigh in on the conflict in Israel. All right, Jake, let's get to it. We are starting with a really scary and sad story coming out of Minnesota, obviously over the weekend where you had an assassination of a former Minnesota House Speaker, Melissa Hortman, and her husband, Mark Hortman, on Saturday.

1:28.8

The state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette Hoffman, were also shot by the alleged gunmen who surrendered Sunday night following a massive police manhunt whenever there is something of this gravity.

1:32.5

And when you see violence, political violence happen, it reverberates around the country

1:37.9

to every elected official, their families, and trying to understand what are the safety

1:42.2

concerns here after such a horrific

1:44.4

incident? Well, first of all, yeah, just a horrific incident. The irony of this is House

1:52.9

Republicans had a call on Saturday about security concerns in the Capitol and security

1:57.7

concerns for members of Congress. And it ironically was on the eighth anniversary

2:03.2

of that horrible baseball shooting. Wow. That nearly killed Steve Scalise. And that's not an

2:10.2

exaggeration. It did nearly kill Steve Scalise. And if it weren't for Steve Scalise having a security

2:15.2

detail, a lot more members. People would have died for sure,

2:18.4

and it was a lot of members at that field. On this call Saturday, this House Republican call,

2:23.8

there was a lot of conversation about the concerns that are specific to Congress. And members

2:28.9

of Congress, I mean, people think that members of Congress have these, these, you know, big security apparatuses,

2:36.7

and they don't. Members of Congress, for the most part, don't have security details. They go

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