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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punchable News. It's Wednesday, March 6th, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, how Congress is going to fund the government. Number two,

TikTok faces a potential ban in the U.S. and number three, top storylines out of Super Tuesday.

All right, Jake, let's get into it. We are leading the top of Punch Bull News. I am looking at how Congress is expected on day 133 of Mike Johnson's speakership to start the government

funding package and avoid a partial government shutdown at midnight Friday after a lot of

drama twists and turns punting, kicking the can down, the proverbial calendar,

you know, I don't know, there's many different, you know, ways we could say it.

Congress is doing Congress.

They're going to have a minibus with six annual spending bills mashed up into one big package.

Yeah, this is how Congress works.

And, you know, I'm just going to say something at the beginning here because I think

it's important to notice, to note.

And Bres and I were talking to a lot of members about this last night.

We talked to Andy Biggs, Jim Jordan, a lot of people last night about this.

Like, maybe you just can't change Congress.

Like, that's my takeaway.

They booted Kevin McCarthy, who is, who was the, you know, had 80- something percent of support in his conference.

And put in Mike Johnson, who had never really been around leadership and said he was a

conservative.

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