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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer.

And I'm Jake Sherman.

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It's Wednesday, April 14th, 2021.

Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, President Joe Biden is set to make his first joint address to Congress.

Number two, inside the reaction to Biden's plan to pull out of Afghanistan, and number three,

the House is readying a $2 billion, you heard that right, $2 billion package to fortify the

capital. All right, Jake, let's get into the stories here. President Joe Biden, we've been

reporting on this, the fact that they wanted to make a joint address

by his first 100 days. And they are going to just squeak into that deadline. Yeah. And,

you know, people on the Hill and in the White House said we were jumping the gun. This wasn't set.

Clearly it was set. So go away people on the Hill who said it wasn't set. But no, this is a big moment for

Joe Biden, right? I mean, this is a, the first time he's going to be in the House chamber as a,

as president of the United States addressing the Congress, not called the State of the Union.

It's called a joint session. It's a message to, to Congress. It's not the state of the union. It's called a joint session. It's a message to Congress. It's not the

state of the union. It's never the state of the union in the president's first year, although for all

intents of purposes, it's a state of the union. For everyone else who's listening, who watches

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