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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer.

And I am Jake Sherman.

And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punchable News. It's Tuesday, January 13th, 2026. Let's get into the mix here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, how Trump economics is changing America. Number two, frontliners erupt at the DNC chair. And number three, we've got the latest on government funding and war powers ahead of the congressional recess.

All right, Jake, let's get to it.

We are leading Punchball News a.m. with a very smart top this morning,

looking at how Trump is single-handedly focused across many different areas on policies that are U.S. focused right now that have massive implications

on the economy, everything from crypto to now credit card fees to tariffs to many other things.

And this is having a ripple effect, right, in terms of what corporate America thinks,

in terms of what Wall Street is doing. This is Washington a ripple effect, right, in terms of what corporate America thinks, in terms of what Wall Street is doing.

This is Washington and Trump having a ripple effect across the country.

This is our way of zooming out on the on the Jay Powell situation because we wrote yesterday in three editions, to be honest with you, about how the criminal probe into Jay Powell was backfiring.

I think that was our subject line or it was in our lead, I remember, in the Midday Edition.

But just think about what he's doing right now with big business.

Last night, Anna, I know that you've been covering this for about 600 years, which is the

credit card swipe fee bill from

Roger Marshall and Dick Durbin, which he called on credit card interest rates to be capped to 10%

no later than January 20th, which is a week from today and urge Congress to ban institutional

investors from purchasing single family homes. Talk about deep intervention into the economy,

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