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Big grocery chains are lying to you.

They blame credit cards for their price increases, but credit card interchange rates haven't

increased in a decade.

What has gone up?

Big grocery store prices.

The FTC says mega retailers used the pandemic to raise prices and pad their pockets.

The Durban Marshall Credit Card mandates help grocery stores profit more at your expense.

Tell Congress, oppose the Durban Marshall Credit Card bill. Good morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bowl News.

It is Thursday, May 22nd, 2025. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, Mike Johnson is on the brink of a massive victory.

Number two, the vault. Senate Democrats clash over crypto cash. And number three,

Krishna-worthy hauls in a million dollars in two weeks for his Illinois Senate bid.

Let's get into it. First of all, a very scary and disheartening, just disgusting story out of downtown

Washington this morning. Last night, two Israeli embassy staffers were shot and killed near the

Capitol Jewish Museum by a gunman who chanted free, free Palestine after the shooting. The victims, Yaron Lachinsky, and Sarah Milgram,

were at this event that was sponsored by the American Jewish Committee. It's stunning.

And as an American Jew, I don't know quite what to say. Just absolutely stunning and horrifying. Tough transition this morning

into reconciliation. Speaker Mike Johnson is one step closer to his biggest achievement since becoming

the speaker 575 days ago. He is going to pass most likely, almost certainly, this morning in the

next couple hours, the reconciliation

bill, the one big beautiful bill act. It cleared its procedural hurdle. The rule vote at around

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