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Morning, I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to the Daily Punch Brought to you by Punch Pool News. It's Thursday, November 6th, 2025.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, Republicans deal with the distracted President Donald Trump.

Number two, the latest on the government shutdown.

And number three, what Virginia and New Jersey tell us about 2026.

All right, Jake,

let's get into it. A really interesting top in this morning's newsletter focused on how the

political winds are whipping the MAGA movement. But in particular, just kind of looking at how

President Donald Trump post passage of the one big beautiful bill act

has been not very focused here in Washington and has been much more focused abroad,

doing international deals, focused on remodeling the White House, so many other things.

But Congress is kind of getting the short end of the stick here.

I would say so. I mean, listen, this is really also just an observation about how in the past 48 hours, things have been really not trending in Republicans' direction. And this is a really in the

moment, anything could change, of course. The shutdown could end but but let me give some examples here so

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