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The Daily Punch

Aug. 2, 2021

The Daily Punch

Punchbowl News

Politics, Government, News

4.3707 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The Infrastructure bill is out ... what's next, the latest low in the Pelosi-McCarthy relationship and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema fundraising off of her weekend work.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.9

Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch.

0:35.4

Brought to you by Punch Bowl News. It's Monday, August 2nd, 2021.

0:40.1

Let's get into the mix.

0:41.3

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

0:43.9

Number one, the infrastructure bill is out.

0:46.4

We've got what's next.

0:48.0

Number two, tension between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy

0:52.5

reaches an all-time high. And number three,

0:55.8

Kirsten Cinema gets into the fundraising game. All right, let's, Jake, let's get into the mix here.

1:00.8

The number one story. Of course, we've been covering it front to back all weekend. The infrastructure

1:05.4

bill is finally out. Yes, it is. All 2,702 pages of it. It is a massive bill that is probably, that, you know,

1:16.5

frankly, the participants are rightly describing it as a generational investment in,

1:21.5

in public works projects, and roads and bridges and airports, waterways, seapaports all those things and um so let's just

1:30.7

pause for a second to say that you know congress doesn't do a lot of big stuff that much anna so that's

1:35.2

this is a big i i think it's worth kind of before getting into the process it's worth kind of

1:40.6

just admitting here that that this is a big deal, right? Yeah, absolutely. I mean,

1:47.8

I think when you look at it, you know, I think in our time covering Congress, it really has

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