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It's Wednesday, May 7th, 2025.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, the latest on Medicaid cuts. Number two, a showdown in the Senate over climate policy. And number three, House Conservatives shun anti-Semitism efforts. All right, Jake, let's get into it. We are leading Punchball News a.m. this morning with a look at the massive pressure speaker Mike Johnson is

facing when it comes to how he is going to navigate these Medicaid cuts. Moderates are putting on

an enormous amount of pressure, trying to push Johnson away from some of the most dramatic cuts that have

been suggested. And so far it appears that they have the speaker's ear here, Jake.

Yeah, yesterday was a very good day for House Republican moderates. Let's just be honest.

They met at 4.30 for about two hours in the speaker's office. And remember,

moderates have effectively, and I'm going to oversimplify for purposes of brevity.

They have effectively two gripes. Number one, Medicaid. Number two, salt. Not all moderates have the salt gripe, but most moderates have the

Medicaid gripes. So we have like a Venn diagram or something. And they left this meeting, and Mike Johnson, the

speaker, left this meeting saying that FMAP, lowering the rate by which

the federal government reimburses Medicaid services, also, again, also known as FMAP, and per capita

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