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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer.

And I'm Jake Sherman.

And welcome to The Daily Punch.

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It's Friday, December 17th,

2021. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, the ugly end

to 2021 for Democrats. Number two, what the next deadline could be for the Build Back Better Act in

2022. And number three, the latest GOP

primary race talking point. All right, Jake, let's get into it. It is not a very good end to

2021 for Democrats. We laid us out at the top of Punch Bull News a.m. But put together, it's, it's pretty damning.

Yeah, it's tough as we put it this morning. It's difficult to imagine an uglier end for 2021 for

Democrats on their top legislative priorities. So let's just run this down from the top.

BBB has stalled, no deadline. Biden basically said he was unable to come to an agreement with Joe Manchin, who is opposed to basically not several, let's say, critical elements of BBB.

Biden's statement says he'll bring it to the floor as soon as possible.

So that doesn't mean, you know, he's not putting a deadline on this now.

That's number one.

Number two, immigration again knocked out of the BBB by the parliamentarian. The third time

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