Across America, Walmart is helping small and medium-sized businesses grow.

The retailer's $350 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing supports businesses like

Athletic Brewing, which opened a new brewery and hired 200 people since working with Walmart.

Learn how Walmart's commitment to products made, grown, or assembled in America

is fueling America's workforce by visiting walmart.com slash America at work.

Kate's just off to work after sleeping in the best bed in the business.

And my word, doesn't she look ready for anything?

Something about her smile is just brighter. Her eyes seem glintier, and she just feels so

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Premier Inn, rest easy. Tise and C's apply. Good morning, I'm Jake Sherman, and welcome to the Daily

Punch, brought to you by Punch Bowl News. It is Thursday, May 5th, 2022. Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, recession fears. Number two, Bernie Sanders versus Jeff Bezos. And number three,

the new Madison Cawthorne video. Let's get into the mix. Leading Punch Bowl news this morning

is an interesting piece by all of us we crashed on

Capitol Hill yesterday trying to get as many voices as we could about the federal reserves decision

to raise interest rates now this is a big big news story the fed raised interest rates by a

half a point yesterday in a sign of how serious the central

bank takes inflation. Obviously, inflation has plagued this presidency. It is at a several

decade high. And this is the biggest interest rate boost since 2000, so 22 years. And it

follows a quarter point hike in March. Jay Powell said he is promising more

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