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The Daily Punch

Discord in the Senate GOP

The Daily Punch

Punchbowl News

Politics, Government, News

4.3707 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The Senate Republican Conference is starting to sound like their House GOP counterparts, Jake breaks it down. Plus, the tax bill is out and Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) gets the support of the House Freedom Caucus going into a tough primary. Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress? Subscribe to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Good morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punchball News.

0:51.3

It is Wednesday, January 24th, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

0:56.5

Number one, inside the warring Senate GOP. number two, House Republican leadership's tentative tax plans, and number three, Bob Good's primary challenge. Let's get into it.

1:03.1

The Senate GOP has turned into a mirror image of sorts of the House Republican Conference, and it's a

1:10.1

complete mess.

1:11.5

Private Republican meetings have devolved into testy exchanges over immigration, Donald

1:16.0

Trump and Ukraine.

1:17.4

Remember, we have been in the middle of a negotiation over the border for, over border

1:23.3

security and immigration policy for weeks now between senators Chris Murphy, James Langford,

1:29.9

and Kirsten Cinema. And this kind of came to a head yesterday in a Senate Republican

1:36.2

conference meeting. Remember, this is not the only meeting this week today. Senate Republicans

1:40.3

have a meeting on Ukraine aid, and it's a meeting that was called by Ron Johnson

1:45.6

and 17 senators, 17 senators, including Ron Johnson, that is. Basically, Republicans are

1:53.1

accusing Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, of using this border negotiation as a

1:58.6

end run to get Ukraine money. And McConnell's view is, no, he's not doing that.

2:05.0

He's trying to use it as an opportunity to score money for the border policy for the border that he

2:12.0

wouldn't be able to get. Republicans wouldn't be able to get if they themselves were in the

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