Republicans face the legislative gauntlet
The Daily Punch
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🗓️ 20 April 2026
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| 0:55.8 | Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punchville News. It's Monday, April 20th, 2026. Let's get into the mix here. Are your Washington headlines of the day? Number one, Trump's biggest issue continues to bear on. Plus, what's next for FISA renewal? Number two, news. The Trump administration says Congress needs to pass DHS funding by the end of the month. |
| 1:00.7 | Number three, no love for Senator John Fetterman among Pennsylvania Democrats. |
| 1:02.6 | Jake, it's good to be back. |
| 1:03.5 | Thank you. |
| 1:04.5 | Yes, thank you. |
| 1:05.3 | Welcome back. |
| 1:08.1 | You missed quite the FISA episode. |
| 1:13.6 | Kind of the low point, Anna, of our House Republican majority, meaning America's, not ours, America's House Republican majority. |
| 1:18.4 | And we've, as Max and I have discussed, my bookcase is still a work in progress, but we are, |
| 1:24.2 | we are nearing completion, I hope. |
| 1:26.8 | I wonder, is that a micro becoming a meta? You know, what does that mean about the world? It's an, we're all at unfinished canvas, Jake. I can tell you what it means for me, but I'm not going to get into that here. We already did offline. Big thank you. Big thank you to Max Cohen for filling in for me. I was off, which was a really nice break. And I'm happy to be back, although this morning came early. All right, happy Monday. Let's get to it. We are leading off the Punchable News AM newsletter with the sentence. Iran remains the biggest crisis facing President Donald Trump, diplomatic, |
| 2:02.2 | political and economic, going into the fact that just Iran continues to beleaguered this |
| 2:08.2 | administration. You know, the president continues to say that there's going to be a deal, |
| 2:12.2 | that they're going to figure that out, but he's threatening attacks on Iran's infrastructure, |
| 2:16.7 | the U.S. forces fired on and seized |
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