Congress returns to a perfect storm
The Daily Punch
Punchbowl News
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Youth mental health is a complex challenge that requires comprehensive solutions. |
| 0:05.4 | We must strengthen after-school programs. |
| 0:08.3 | We must make digital literacy tools available in our schools. |
| 0:11.8 | We must work with mental health professionals to support children. |
| 0:14.8 | And we must empower mentors, educators, and parents to keep kids happy. |
| 0:20.1 | Learn more about our commitment to finding lasting |
| 0:22.4 | solutions at empower our future coalition.com slash solutions paid for by the coalition to |
| 0:28.5 | empower our future. Good morning. I'm Ada Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. |
| 0:42.3 | And welcome to The Daily Punch. Brought to you by Punch Bull News. It's Monday, March 16th, 2026. |
| 0:47.1 | Let's get in the mix here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, Congress's Big Agenda. |
| 0:52.1 | Number two, what's next for the Save America Act? |
| 0:54.3 | And number three, are Christian-Morthy allies trying to split the black vote? |
| 0:58.9 | All right, Jake, let's get to it. |
| 1:00.1 | We are leading off Punchball News AM. |
| 1:03.1 | With a look at the list of many things that Congress has on its agenda, |
| 1:09.2 | it's going to be a lot, a big lift to say the least. |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah, we have, first of all, we should say with this storm, and Anna, I don't even know what |
| 1:16.3 | the hell's about to go on, but there's supposed to be a storm that's going to hit D.C. today. |
| 1:19.8 | OPM has said that federal workers could telework today. |
| 1:24.2 | So I guess there's a tornado coming or something like that. |
| 1:27.4 | The House has postponed |
| 1:28.8 | its first votes to 3 p.m. tomorrow, Tuesday. So they are in session today debating suspensions, but |
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