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

March 15th, 2021.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, we've got report cards for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy are doing so far this Congress.

Number two, Goldman Sachs has its latest predictions on the economy.

Hint, hint, could be a good sign for Democrats. And number three, we had New York Times reporter

Maggie Haberman, who's covered New York politics for decades on our look-ahead show last night.

We covered a lot of ground on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who's entrenched in multiple scandals at the

moment. All right, Jake, let's talk about Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

We basically are a couple of months into this new Congress looking at how they are doing.

Let's start with Nancy Pelosi, positives, negatives. Where is she at?

Yeah, listen, I think Pelosi has expanded her power base and expanded it as flexing her power

more than ever before. I think that's undoubtable. I mean, she's seen her. We get into this

a lot more in the newsletter, so you should subscribe at punchball.com News. But I will just say that she is positioned herself and as the one person wrecking crew, so to speak,

the one person power center trying to protect the capital as a physical institution and

keep people safe.

She also listened. She just got through a very large

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