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It's Monday, March 24th, 2025.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, Republicans

hone in on reconciliation negotiations. Number two, who we are watching this week. And number three,

Senator Ted Cruz leads the way on a Mexican water dispute. All right, Jake, let's get into it.

Both the House and Senate are back.

President Donald Trump is at the White House. We've got some news here this morning. We're

leading off Punchful News A.m. The top with the fact that a big moment of the week is going to come on Tuesday.

That's when Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, and House and Senate

Republican Committee chairs will begin to meet to hammer out how to meld their very different

budget resolutions for reconciliation. At stake, no less, the fate of Donald Trump's

legislative agenda. And why we are these budget resolutions different, Jake, I mean,

you kind of couldn't be different, more different in some ways. The House's resolution includes

a minimum of a $1.5 trillion in spending cuts and $4.5 trillion for tax cuts while the Senate's

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