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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, January 10th, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, we've got the latest on government funding. Number two, how the top two leaders in the Senate are pushing for Ukraine funding. And number

three, the latest on that possible tax deal from the vault. All right, Jake, let's get into it.

We are leading Punch Bowl News AM with a look at the unenviable position that Speaker Mike Johnson finds himself

in as he tries to find a way forward on government funding and the outlook for a short-term

CR appears more likely than not at this point.

Yeah, so here's what I would say.

A lot happened yesterday.

Really, truly a lot happened yesterday.

And the big thing that happened is after we reported yesterday in the AM edition that

Mike Johnson is going to have to come around

to the fact that he needs a short-term CR.

Like it's January 10th, funding runs out January 19th.

The Appropriations Committee doesn't even have their 302Bs yet.

Those are the allocations for each spending bill, meaning so there's a big number for all the appropriations bills. And then there's each bill, each of the 12 bills has to have an allocation. That's not done yet. Once those are done, then they could fix the bills they've already written

and write to new numbers, whatever, so they don't have those yet. Yesterday morning, John Thune

said they want a CR or they, he would want a CR until March. So kick all funding until

March. Mitch McConnell then said he wants, we need a CR. He didn't even say it's a question. Remember, Mike Johnson on November 14th said no more short term CRs. What is short term to him? I don't know. That's not, you know, that's, I guess, a big question.

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