Is the government going to shut down?

The Daily Punch

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Politics, News, Government

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🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Anna and Jake discuss the politics of a potential government shutdown and what’s happening in the negotiations to avert one with the March 14 funding deadline looming. Plus, a bipartisan effort to ban DeepSeek on government devices. 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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0:24.4	Find out more at G.co'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch.
0:46.1	Brought to you by Punchable News. It's Thursday, February 27th, 2025. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, government
0:55.1	shutdown watch. We're back here again. Number two, Hill Republicans stick together on defense
1:00.4	spending. And number three, some news from Punchball News Tech. A bipartisan trio is looking to ban
1:07.7	the Chinese deep seek from government-issued devices.
1:11.6	All right, Jake, let's get into it.
1:13.3	We are leading Punch Bull News a.m.'s top with a look at the question, is the government
1:19.4	going to shut down?
1:21.5	It is time to talk about that.
1:23.7	We are 15 days away from a potential government shutdown.
1:44.5	And there are a lot of negotiations that are happening between Republicans and Democrats as a hill looks to avert a government shutdown by the March 14th funding deadline. But it's been pretty interesting here. You have a fight between Democrats and Republicans, Democrats thinking they have some leverage republicans trying to push ahead um and the time is ticking to say the least yeah this has been
1:51.5	obscured by the um the budget resolution fight um we've been focused on on the house republican leadership's
2:00.0	efforts to get a budget through before that we were focused on the senate Republican leadership's efforts to get a budget through.
2:01.7	Before that, we were focused on the Senate Republican leadership's efforts to get a budget
2:05.1	through, a budget resolution through.
2:07.3	Remember, these are two very different processes.
2:09.8	I got asked on TV about that the other day, not related in any meaningful way, the budget
2:15.3	resolution fight and the government funding fight,
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