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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer.

And I'm Jake Sherman.

Welcome to The Daily Punch.

Watch you by Punch Bowl News.

It's Wednesday, December 21st, 2022.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, we've got the latest on the Ukraine president coming to Capitol Hill.

Number two, where things stand on the Omni and the January 6th report.

And number three, some unique insight into the new power dynamic between Kevin McCarthy and Senate Republicans.

All right, Jake, let's get into it.

Yesterday was a huge day for Punch Bull News.

We broke the news that the Ukraine president was coming to Capitol Hill.

There is a lot at stake here for Ukraine as the Congress looks at passing a

massive omnibus bill that's going to have a lot of funding for Ukraine. And as there's some

wobbles of Republicans right now in terms of the weather and how much they want to keep spending

to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia. Yeah. So let's start with the news here.

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