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

March 3rd, 2021.

Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, Washington Joe Biden wants versus the Washington Joe Biden has.

Number two, Nira Tandon's nomination for OMB director was finally pulled last night. We've got some new reporting on how some House Democrats are already lobbying for another

person to fill the slot.

And number three, the question everyone is asking, what's next?

All right, Jake, you are leading Punchable News AM's newsletter with an item, a riff on this

idea of the Washington Joe Biden wants versus Washington Joe Biden gets.

We've been talking a lot about this just in terms of where Biden thinks Washington

should be versus kind of the reality.

Yeah, this is a challenge for for Joe Biden,

I'd say, because the Washington that he has is much different than the Washington that that he wants.

I mean, Joe Biden operated in a linear Washington in which things made sense and when and people

were on as brokers. And he doesn't have that right now um the uh you know

he campaigned on this idea that republicans and democrats could work together and um to notch big

legislative priorities and and this week republicans are going to stand pat unless something

crazy happens against a large-scale

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