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The Daily Punch

How will this DHS shutdown end?

The Daily Punch

Punchbowl News

News, Government, Politics

4.3707 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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It’s Day 40 of the DHS shutdown and the Senate remains at a crippling impasse over a GOP proposal to fund all of the department except for ICE enforcement. Anna and Jake discuss the latest and how this could all end.  Plus, to impeach President Donald Trump? House Democrats are saying not so fast. Watch this episode on YouTube here! Punchbowl News is on YouTube⁠. ⁠Subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to our channel today to see all the new ways⁠⁠ ⁠we’re investing in video.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter at punchbowl.news.⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:48.3

Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer.

0:50.1

And I'm Jake Sherbin.

0:51.0

And welcome to The Daily Punch Brought to you by Punchable News.

0:53.4

It's Thursday, March 26th, 2020. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, how to solve the DHS shutdown or not. Number two, a third time's a charm. House Dems are lukewarm on impeaching Trump. And number three, the latest from the campaign trail. a Florida upset spooks Republicans on redistricting.

1:12.7

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

1:14.2

We are continuing to focus on will they or won't they?

1:18.0

Can the Senate find a pathway forward to get out of this DHS mess?

1:23.8

Man, the jet fumes Senate, Republicans, Democrats are smelling them. They want to find a deal

1:28.5

because they want to go on a two-week recess. But so far, no final deal has been made. NADA. And we keep writing about DHS. I'd like to get off of it, to be honest with you. Brezina, I were talking about this yesterday when we're in the middle of a 40-day shutdown. The Eastern and Passover recess is coming up.

1:42.9

Airports are an absolute mess,

1:45.4

and we're

1:45.9

kind of at this point where Congress needs to do something or not or just go on this recess.

1:51.5

And- Man, that does not feel feasible, Jake. I agree. I mean, this was a hot topic of conversation

1:56.9

yesterday. I spoke to someone in leadership, either the speaker or something about this

2:01.5

yesterday, and he had, he definitely addressed it. I just can't remember if I was there or not or I read it.

2:06.8

The House will not stick around unless the Senate move something. The Senate's in the driver's seat here,

2:12.6

and they are always, the House is always on, you know, the 72-hour long call, I guess it's called,

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