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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer.

And I'm Jake Sherman.

And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to by Punchable News.

It's Thursday, October 16th, 2025.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, inside John Thune's Trump management.

Number two, takeaways from a big FEC filing deadline.

And number three, the fight over spectrum. It continues. All right, Jake, let's get into it.

A great morning top here as we are in day 16 of the government shutdown. Our very own Andrew Desiderio leading here with a, he didn't talk about this earlier this

week, just kind of going through the idea of how, you know, Senate Majority Leader John Thune

came in. I think there was a lot of questions. He and Trump kind of infamously, famously had

had some TIFs kind of going back a few years.

Thune worked on that.

And if you look at his tenure so far, a top Senate Republican leadership, it has gone generally very well when it comes to President Donald Trump.

Yeah, I mean, and who would have thunk, right?

I mean, this is a guy who Trump tried to, I mean, kind of half-heartedly called to have

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