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The Daily Punch

Can Republicans meet the new July 4 deadline?

The Daily Punch

Punchbowl News

News, Politics, Government

4.3 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

House Republicans have a new, patriotic deadline for their bill enacting President Donald Trump’s domestic legislative agenda: the Fourth of July. Can they make that happen? Plus, Sen. Brian Schatz’s strategy as he hopes to succeed Sen. Dick Durbin as Senate Democratic whip. Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress? Subscribe to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter at punchbowl.news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Learn how Walmart's commitment to products made, grown, or assembled in America

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is fueling America's workforce by visiting walmart. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch.

0:46.1

Brought to you by Punchpool News. It's Tuesday, April 29th, 2025. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, gaming out reconciliation.

0:56.7

Number two, Amazon goes on offense in Trump's trade war. And number three, the state of the Senate Democratic leadership race.

1:05.3

All right, Jake, let's get into it. It is a very busy week with Congress back in session after their two-week recess.

1:13.2

It is President Donald Trump's 100th day in office. He is going to Michigan to mark the occasion.

1:20.7

All right. Let's start with the top story of the morning. The reconciliation road ahead.

1:25.4

House Republicans have a new patriotic deadline for their bill in

1:29.7

acting Trump's domestic legislative agenda the 4th of July. That timetable requires that

1:35.7

everything goes precisely to plan. What could go wrong? It's Congress. But man, this speaker is

1:42.3

really pushing full steam ahead here, Jake, though I think giving a little bit to reality that a Memorial Day deadline was going to be unattainable.

1:52.2

Oh, I wonder where who's been saying that for three months.

1:57.0

Oh, us like every day.

2:01.0

And last week we wrote that everybody was saying it would be July 4th or August recess.

2:07.4

So you heard it here first, I think.

2:10.8

Or maybe you heard it somewhere else.

2:11.9

Taking a morning victory lap, Jake Sherman here, folks.

2:14.2

Yeah, Hannah, there's a story this morning in the Wall Street Journal.

2:18.7

The 4 a.m. wake-up is not just for Superman CEOs anymore, although I guess you're the

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