Inside the Senate GOP's tough reconciliation negotiation

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🗓️ 17 June 2025

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Anna and Jake discuss the Senate GOP's tough reconciliation negotiation. Plus, as Israel and Iran continue their deadly conflict, senators in Washington are offering rhetorical support for Israel — but little else. 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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0:44.2	Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch,
0:50.2	brought to you by Punchful News. It's Tuesday, June 17th, 2025. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, three thorny issues Senate Republicans have to
0:54.8	negotiate on reconciliation. Number two, Israel at war, and Congress is watching. And number three,
1:00.7	the latest from the campaign trail. All right, Jake, happy Tuesday morning. We have a lot to get to
1:06.8	your leading punchable news a.m. with a look at the tough negotiations that Senate Republicans are facing here
1:14.5	ahead of their July 4th deadline to try and pass a reconciliation bill, things are going to get
1:21.7	harder before they get easier.
1:24.5	Yeah, I mean, listen, the Senate Finance Committee released their text yesterday.
1:27.6	That's the headline. It's actually not literally the headline. We have a different headline on the
1:32.1	I-go- Well, that's good. I'm glad we can let everybody know. Because we don't want to talk about yesterday.
1:36.3	We want to talk about today and tomorrow because we don't look backwards because looking
1:40.1	backwards is silly because most people know what happened yesterday because they were here
1:44.2	yesterday. They were alive yesterday. We're having a really metaphysical conversation here to start
1:49.6	off at 445 in the morning. Yeah, 449. Give us some credit. So the Senate Finance Committee's
1:57.8	marked yesterday included a bunch of changes that Laura Weiss did a great job on in PM in the PM edition yesterday, which everyone should be subscribed to.
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