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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer.

And I'm Jake Sherman.

And welcome to The Daily Punch.

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It's Thursday, April 1st, 2021.

Happy April Fool's Day.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one.

Joe Biden is considering a joint session of Congress-type speech around his first 100 days.

And we've got a few other newsy nuggets. Number two, how Republicans

are going to push back against Biden's American Jobs Plan. And number three, the latest fundraising

numbers from Senator Josh Hawley in Missouri and Democrat Alex Lazary in Wisconsin. All right, Jake,

let's get into the number one story of the day.

Joe Biden finally coming to Congress to give a joint session type speech.

Talk a little bit, I think, for our listeners, about why this matters,

why it's maybe taken so long.

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