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Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off. Conditions apply. Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake

Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch. Brought to you by Punch Poll News. It's Friday, January 7th,

2022. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, Joe Biden's two big speeches. Number two, the latest on government funding.

And number three, what Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said at CES. All right, Jake,

let's get into it. The top story of the morning in Punch Bowl News a.m.

is a look at President Joe Biden and his two speeches, the speech he gave yesterday, one year after the January 6th insurrection, one that he got very widely praised for in terms of kind of standing up, being very muscular in

his defensive democracy, in going after former president Donald Trump and his role in

instigating that as well as kind of fomenting some of the kind of ire in the Republican Party

and the big lie and all of that. But he's got another big speech coming up next week as well.

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