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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer.

And I am Jake Sherman.

And welcome to The Daily Punch.

Brought to you by Punchable News, it's Tuesday, February 25th, 2025.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, Johnson's big squeeze.

Number two, Dems focus on Doge's veterans layoffs. And number three, the latest from the vault.

Warren is set to grill Trump's CFPB nominee. All right, Jake, let's get into it. We are leading Punchball News a.m.'s The Top with a look at how Speaker,

Mikea Johnson is in the midst of his most important legislative brawl of his career,

undering, we write, withering pressure from all directions over the GOP's multi-trillion dollar

budget resolution.

It's a critical moment in determining whether Republicans, and specifically Johnson, can

execute on President Donald Trump's legislative agenda. There are a lot of factors at play here,

but the biggest of which to me seems to be is just the number of Republicans who Johnson still has yet to

sway that this is the bill they need to vote for. Yeah. Okay. So listen, I got some

flack yesterday for being too skeptical that they'll put this on the floor today.

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