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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer.

And I'm Jake Sherman.

Welcome to The Daily Punch.

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It's Wednesday, July 21st,

2021. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, we've got

new reporting on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's taking a hard line when it comes to the debt ceiling.

Number two, the latest on infrastructure and number three.

Senate Democratic Group is clapping back on the big fundraising number we reported yesterday that

Republicans were bragging about. All right, Jake, let's tackle with this new reporting that we

have about Mitch McConnell, the debt ceiling. This issue is about to really come to the four here

in the next couple of months, if not even sooner than that, about how Congress is going to

raise the debt ceiling. Yeah, so listen, John Bresenhan, our colleague Bres, spoke to Mitch

McConnell yesterday afternoon in the Capitol

yesterday evening, I believe it was, if my memory serves me well.

And McConnell said that his Republicans are not going to vote for the debt ceiling at all.

And he suggested that Democrats put the debt ceiling increase inside of a reconciliation

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