Democrats try border play again
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🗓️ 20 May 2024
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| 0:54.2 | Good. Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And I am Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bowl News. It's Monday, May 20th, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer tees up another vote on the border. Number two, The Volt. |
| 0:59.4 | Our very own Brendan Peterson is traveling with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen this week. |
| 1:04.3 | And number three, the NRCC's March Hall. All right, Jake, welcome back to the pod. |
| 1:11.0 | Happy, yeah, happy to be back. |
| 1:13.3 | Bit of a reprieve. |
| 1:14.8 | We are teeing up this morning, some news that broke over the weekend that Senate Majority Leader |
| 1:21.9 | Chuck Schumer is planning to force another vote on the Senate border package, unexpected to pass, |
| 1:31.1 | unexpected to even get a majority with some of his own Democrats, expected to not vote for it. |
| 1:36.6 | But interesting that this is one of those areas where they are trying to shore up kind of their |
| 1:42.5 | bona fides going into the election season. |
| 1:45.8 | That's right. This is a political vote and should be viewed as that, I think is the main |
| 1:51.9 | takeaway here. Why is it a political vote? Because this deal fell apart months ago. |
| 2:01.5 | By the way, and everything that happens in the Capitol is political, right? |
| 2:06.0 | So let's just start that as a foundational principle as we go into this week. |
| 2:12.4 | But this deal, which was cut initially between Chris Murphy and James Langford, |
| 2:21.3 | is fell apart. It didn't have, |
| 2:25.3 | it didn't have any support. It didn't have enough support among Republicans. We've covered that in rich detail, Anna, over the last several months. Donald Trump dumped all over it. But what, |
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