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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer.

And I'm Jake Sherman.

And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punchwell News.

It's Friday, October 17th, 2025, TGIF.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, Steve Gilles on Flyout Day.

Number two, what the FEC numbers tell us about the battle for the House. And number three, going down to the Peach State,

Jake, Georgia, said a GOP primary is up for grabs. All right, everybody, let's start with the top

of Punch Bull News AM. We had House Majority Leader, Steve Scalise, the Republican from Louisiana,

join us in the Punchable News Townhouse yesterday for our most recent episode of Fly Out Day.

If you are not subscribed and watching it on YouTube, I encourage you to. But as always,

it was super newsy and really interesting to get Scalise at such an inflection point.

We are on day 17 of the government shutdown, no resolution in sight to this crisis.

And the big headline for us was Scalice basically said Republicans won't extend Obamacare credits.

That's the big ass that Democrats have.

Yes, I'll just mention very quickly at the top here because everyone listens at the top.

G.W. Georgetown tomorrow night.

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