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Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bowl News. It's Monday, March 8th,

2021. Happy International Women's Day. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, we've got the latest on COVID relief as the package heads to the House ahead of Joe Biden's March 14th deadline.

Number two, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has

solidified his position, knocking back potential primary challenges for now. And number three,

Liz Cheney's short trip to Florida for the House Republican Leadership Retreat. All right, Jake,

let's get into the mix here. Number one, the COVID relief package over the

weekend, past the Senate. It's moving to the House. It hasn't gotten there yet. But this is moving

a pace to actually meet Joe Biden's March 14th deadline. It is as of now. The progressives in

that-

I guess on my part. Yeah, progressives in the House are waiting

on a sign from Harry and Megan whether they should be voting for those. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.

No, I mean, listen, I don't have any, I don't have any sense at this point that there's going to be

a big progressive uprising over this bill. I think it's probably going to go through. You know, they've changed the

unemployment insurance provisions and that could be it could have been a tripwire for

progressive Democrats. They're not taking the bait here. They're not they're not going crazy

over it. And I am a little surprised about that. But again, this is a big victory for for progressives. This is a very progressive bill. This is a very big victory for Biden for Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. Chuck Schumer, who's up for reelection in 2022. So just a year and change from now. You know, so this is a, this is a big victory. And it's only

a couple months into the Congress. And as we noted last week, Joe Biden hasn't signed much of

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