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Good morning, I'm Anna Palmer.

And I'm Jake Sherman.

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It is Tuesday, January 21st, 2025.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one.

What's on speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune's Minds? Number two,

the latest on Noms. And number three, we've got some news here on a Johnson staffer who will be key to tax reform.

All right, Jake, let's get into it. It was a busy Monday with President Donald Trump taking a very active first day in office, delivering

on promises across a variety of, you know, kind of issues and delivering on campaign promises, pardoning 1,500 January 6 rioters,

threatening trade wars with Canada, Mexico, and China, giving TikTok another 75 days before being

banned. And that is just the start of all of the things that he did on Monday. But let's zero in here

on what's really important, which is we are 52 days until the federal

government runs out of money.

And just over five weeks until Speaker Mike Johnson has said a GOP-controlled Congress would

pass a budget resolution needed to unlock tax cuts and other key Republican priorities.

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