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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to by Punch Bull News.

Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, speaker Mike Johnson's Jackson Hole retreat. Number two, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries hits the fundraising circuit and number three, the latest from the vault. All right, good morning, everyone. I hope

you're having a good week. Let's get started here with the number one story leading Punch Bowl News

AM. I'm going to focus here on what Speaker Mike Johnson is doing at the top.

He's been on the road helping colleagues raise massive piles of money.

And this week, he is at the Four Seasons in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Not a bad posting.

This is for Team Johnson Jackson Hole Summit.

It's a confab where big donors get to rub shoulders with both veteran GOP lawmakers and up-and-coming Republicans.

Team Johnson and the Congressional Leadership Fund run the event, which boasts its fair share of billionaires.

The entire leadership is at the event in Wyoming except for House Republican Conference Chair,

Elise Stefanik, who is back home in her district.

In the newsletter this morning, we have a full list of a lot of the kind of senior members who are at the retreat,

as well as some of the lower level leadership members and up-and-coming candidates.

Those include, interestingly enough, representatives Andy Barr from Kentucky and French Hill of Arkansas.

Both are candidates for the top slot on the House Financial Services

Committee, House Natural Resources Chair, Bruce Westerman from Arkansas, House Administration

Committee Chair, Brian Stile. Other leadership folks include Conference Secretary Lisa McLean,

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