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It's Monday, March 25th, 2024.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, why everyone is mad heading into the two-week

recess. Number two, anti-tick-tok ads hit the airwives and number three, congressional veep stakes.

All right, Jake, let's get into it. We have a kind of gloomy top this morning about everybody

leaving town in this two-week recess in a not so very good

place. John Bresdenahan reporting live. Yeah, that's right. Listen, everyone, let's start with this.

If you're listening to this and you're a member of Congress, you're not in Washington,

most likely, or maybe you are, but Congress is out for the next two weeks on a recess for

people around the world, around the country, doing their thing. So Washington will be,

or the Capitol will be quiet for the

next two weeks. And Bres writes a kind of a, not a postmortem of sorts about how everybody

is angry and everybody and everyone left town angry with each other, I guess is the best

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