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Jake Sherman. And welcome to the Daily Punch. Brought to you by Punch Bowl News. It's Wednesday,

June 2nd,

2021. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, being a VP is a

tough gig. You get all the bad jobs. Number two, Speaker Nancy Pelosi's options on January 6th and

number three, majority forward is up with a new $1.5 million ad buy. All right, Jake,

we are leading Punch Bowl News AM newsletter this morning with a look at Vice President Kam

Kamala Harris and all of the tasks that Joe Biden has been assigning her? Yeah.

So the president yesterday gave Kamala Harris a new assignment, figuring out how to pass

HR1 in an updated voting rights act to tasks that would certainly almost 100% require

Harris to get Joe Manchin to bust the filibuster what a what a um interesting move by

biden biden has also figured out as also tasked um harris with trying to figure out how to stop

central american migrants from coming into the united states jobs that, let's just be honest here,

are nearly impossible. Joe Manchin has said under no circumstance, literally zero circumstances.

Sorry to make this point clear to Democrats, but has suggested that he will never, ever, ever,

blow up the legislative filibuster. Kirsten Cinema is right there with him.

So good luck, Kamala Harris.

Yeah, it's interesting.

I mean, it's not, I mean, for somebody who's had the job, it's not necessarily surprising, right?

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