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I will insist again.

We did not cut medication.

I didn't say cut.

I said touch.

You got it. At the end of Medicaid. I didn't say cut. I said touch. You got touched.

At the end of the week, Washington empties out. Fast. Lawmakers, staffers, they're all

heading home. But not before they stop here. year.

Hey, everybody. We are coming to you from the Punch Bull News townhouse.

Or as I like to call it, Punchball News Global International Studios.

We built something different here, conversations you will not hear anywhere else.

A big thank you to my friends in Humphreys McGee. Anna even allowed me to use jam band music in the intro to the show. Nemo, great tune. Love it. Oh, man. This is a show about power and Congress every Thursday. We will talk to the people in the center of the chaos about what just went down and what's right around the corner. And while today is our pilot episode... Not what you did there, fly-out day, pilot, very, very clever. We want to get right into it. So today, we've got speaker Mike Johnson, Manu Raju, and Jackie Kucinich. Three heavy hitters all in one show. From the latest hill drama to what's coming next, they're going to break it all down for you. Let's get to it. But right before that, a quick word from our presenting sponsor, META.

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All right, Speaker, Mike Johnson of Shreveport, Louisiana, the former vice chair of the House

Republican Conference, and a Thai magazine cover boy, as Steve Scalese called you yesterday.

Welcome to Our House. I'm so honored to be the inaugural guest. I'm so, I'm so thankful for the opportunity and good to see you guys. And I will say when you see this live, this is very impressive. I mean, this is like a big broadcast journalism studio. Well, we're small but mighty. All right, let's start with government funding. From our vantage point, we've been writing about this for a while now.

The government looks like it's going to shut down. Democrats are emboldened to fight. Republicans

or have competing priorities. Is the government going to shut down?

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