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

Bought to you by Punchable News. It's Tuesday, January 7th, 2025. Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, Trump's relationship with the Freedom Caucus.

It's complicated. Number two, the Senate eyes votes on Israel and immigration. And number three,

the reconciliation followed. What to watch. All right, Jake, let's get into it. We are leading Punchable News AM with a look at how Hill Republicans are scrambling to implement Donald Trump's agenda.

But there is a big question.

Circling in GOP circles, will the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus be the President-elect's biggest supporters or his biggest problem, children?

This is something that has been borne out already in just the last month or so when it came

to government funding and the strategy there.

We are seeing it all over when it came to the Speaker's vote.

It took a call from the President-elect in order to flip to the Freedom Caucus members in order to put Speaker Mike Johnson over the finish line.

Really an interesting dynamic because if you just kind of from 100,000 foot, you'd say, okay, these are the most conservative, conservative House members.

Of course they're going to support.

They're the most MAGA of the entire conference.

But this is a group that is contrarian and, you know, kind of on some issues, like spending, really are not in line with where President-elect Trump is.

You know, Mel and Mika did such a great job on this item,

and I want to talk about it at length.

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