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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer.

And I'm Jake Sherman.

And welcome to the Daily Punch.

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It's Friday, March 19th, 2021.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, we're going to take a step back and assess where Joe Biden's White House is

and lay out their plans for the summer.

Number two, tensions are rising between the U.S. and China, and number three,

immigration reform is making some progress in the House. All right, Jake, let's go to the number

one story of the day. We lay this out in quite a bit of detail in Punchable News AM, but basically

looking at Joe Biden's White House, big success, obviously,

with the $1.9 trillion COVID relief plan.

They were able to muscle it through in very short order.

But the challenges ahead and how they are looking at what they're going to be doing next.

It's a totally different strategy.

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