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Good morning.

I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to the Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bowl News.

It's Thursday, June 24th, 2021. Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines for the day. Number one, we spoke to Gina Raimondo,

the Secretary of Commerce, and will tell you what she told us. Number two, all about the

infrastructure deal. Man, we got a lot to talk about. And number three, what this means for the

rest of Biden's agenda. Okay, let's get into the mix. Okay, so we spoke to Gina Raimondo

yesterday, the Commerce Secretary, to talk about her legislative priorities and principally

the U.S. semiconductor industry and the care economy.

Also, passing an infrastructure bill.

We keep hearing about Raimondo from people on the hill, how she's a savvy operator,

how she's doing really well, and how she's really good with lawmakers.

So we wanted to catch up with her.

We caught up with her on Zoom.

The video was in the newsletter this morning.

So we asked her what she says to Democrats who say that the government should not be giving

all this money to U.S. semiconductor manufacturers. And she said, first of all, if we thought

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