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It is Friday, March 22nd, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, House Republican leadership is struggling on the government

funding bill. Number two, Harry Dunn was suspended in 2011 after a gun incident. And number three,

the Biden campaign leans on the CHC to build Hispanic support. Let's get into it. First of all,

the most important thing that's happening today outside of government funding,

it actually might even be the most important thing, including government funding,

is that the Yukon Huskies, the number one seed, the number one seed,

is playing Stetson today in their first game of the NCAA tournament.

Their bid to keep the, to win their back to back to back national championship.

Their game against Stetson is 2.45 today in Brooklyn.

So go Huskies.

And also worth noting here that the Bagel Cau is celebrating its one-year birthday anniversary today,

I have seen behind-the-scenes images of the bagels coming into the Capitol.

And we are waiting with bated breath for the bagel caucus's one-year anniversary.

So let's talk about now, let's get down to business. The House,

the government funding runs out tonight. It's March 22nd. It's tonight. This is six bills,

six very thorny bills, the most thorny being labor, HHS, defense, and homeland security.

These run out tonight, and we have a package out, a one point trillion dollar package,

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