Fly Out Day: Inside the funding fight with Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto

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🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto joins Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer to dig into DHS funding, her future in the Senate and President Trump's tariffs. PLUS stick around for frequent flyers Igor Bobic and our own Andrew Desiderio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Fly Out Day, our brand new show here at Punchful News.
0:03.8	If you love The Daily Punch, join us every Thursday for even more fresh insight from lawmakers and reporters as Washington heads out of town.
0:11.5	Subscribe to Fly Out Day wherever you get your podcasts.
0:15.5	You are going to run.
0:17.8	In 2020.
0:19.1	Yeah, well, we're getting there.
0:20.2	We'll see.
0:20.5	At the end of the week, Washington empties out. Fast. in, oh, 2020. Yeah, well, we're getting there, we'll see.
0:24.1	At the end of the week, Washington empties out, fast.
0:27.5	Lawmakers, staffers, they're all heading home.
0:32.3	But not before they stop here. Hi, it's Catherine.
0:43.4	Hello, and welcome back to the Punchable News townhouse for another episode of Flyo Day.
0:47.4	I'm Anna Palmer.
0:48.3	And I'm still Jake Sherman.
0:49.8	We are very excited to be here this morning because there's a lot happening here in Washington.
0:54.9	Besides the snowstorm, besides the ice and the city's inability to plow the streets,
0:58.8	we are very focused on the capital right now and the negotiations between Senate Democrats and the White House.
1:05.0	Yes, Chuck Schumer and the White House are talking about a deal, which by the time this airs could be consummated, might not be,
1:11.7	over government funding and a government shutdown.
1:15.4	Democrats are standing up and saying we will not vote for a DHS spending bill unless
1:21.2	there's changes to how ICE and CBP operate in the interior of the country.
1:25.9	After a pair of deadly shootings in Minneapolis.
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