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Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch. Brought to you by Punch Bowl News. It's Monday, February 1st, 2021.

And it's our inaugural edition.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, 10 Republicans are getting an invite to the White House before Democratic leadership,

like Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

What does this signal for possible COVID relief?

Number two, we've got the latest on the state of the deeply divided GOP ahead of the Trump impeachment trial,

and number three.

Remember all that talk about state and local funding and how Democrats are always pushing for it?

Well, we've got some new data that could make that argument harder for them to make. All right, Jake,

let's take it at the top here with number one. Ten Republicans getting an invite before Democratic

leaders to Joe Biden's White House. Not necessarily the move I would have expected from a Democratic administration.

Well, get this. Susan Collins before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the White House,

this is enough to make Democrats red in the face and quite angry. Listen, Anna, I think Joe Biden,

I think we might underrate this. I think Joe Biden is truly tempted by the fruit of bipartisanship.

I think that for better or worse, right? I mean, he has an all-democratic DC. Even though it's

closely divided, he has a Democratic House and a Democratic Senate. And his first meeting,

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