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Find out more at G.co'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punchable News. It's Friday, July 25th, 2025. We are going to get into it. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, we are going inside Dem's redistricting strategy. Number two, the vault is in Las Vegas with ways and means chairman Jason Smith. And number three, Senate Republicans are fighting over government funding. All right, Jake, it has been a week. I was in

Rayburn yesterday and it did feel like the beginning of recess, really, though, truly. I mean,

the halls were a little empty. People were a little loopy, even a little earlier than normal,

not what's happening on the Senate side. but there's all this focus on 2026,

redistricting. You know, we've talked so much about Republicans and how aggressive they're

getting. And the top was really terrific by Ali Mutnick, looking at Democrats who don't have as

many kind of optionalities as Republicans. And we kind of get into why that is.

But let's just talk about this.

I mean, it's interesting.

Democrats are trying to figure out a way to counteract Republicans and finding that they

have a lot less options than they might like.

So Democrats are just beating their chest.

I mean, Republicans and Democrats are both beating their chest saying that they're going

to redraw a lot of maps. So Republicans have a lot of options. Democrats don't. This is a bubble

burst for Democrats because there's been a lot of reporting and a lot of people talking,

Democrats talking, but not actually tethered to reality about what could what they can actually do.

And here's why.

Here's what Allie writes.

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