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Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,

who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.

Hello!

To him, this is the best sound in the world.

Daddy!

Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.

Now that's term time working.

Offered at Amazon. 10 weeks off guaranteed per year.

Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off. Conditions apply. Good morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to

the Daily Punch. Brought to you by Punch Bowl News. It is Tuesday, February 1st, 2022. Let's get into

the mix. Here are your Washington headlines for the day. Number one, the Biden barrel.

Number two, Congress is running out of time on a big government funding bill. And number three,

election reform is getting more serious. Let's get into it. Welcome to February. And nothing will

ever compare to the internal firing squad that was the Donald Trump administration.

Lots of reporters made their bones off of the who was up and who was down every single day in the Trump era.

But as Joe Biden's numbers have swooned as his national standing has kind of taken a hit, top administration officials from Vice President Kamala Harris on down have all had their turn

being made the scapegoat for Biden's political problems, at least in part.

Today, the front page of the Washington Post has Javier Becerra as the target.

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