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Good morning, I'm Anna Palmer.

And I'm Jake Sherman.

And welcome to The Daily Punch.

Brought to you by Punch Bowl News.

It's Friday, September 15th, 2020.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, we've got the latest on government funding.

Number two, does the Freedom Caucus have an endgame?

And number three, Ukraine's Vladimir Zelenskyy is coming to Capitol Hill.

All right, Jake, let's get into it.

We have been all over government funding, the drama, the dysfunction,

all of the D-words this week when it comes to how Congress is going to get itself out of the mess that it is in right now.

And the top of Punchable News AM takes a look at how it really wasn't supposed to be this way.

Right.

I mean, if you look at the fact that you had this deal on the debt limit, the top line number,

had already been negotiated as part of that.

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