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is fueling America's workforce by visiting walmart.com slash America at work. Good morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to the Daily Punch, brought to you by PunchPol News.

It is Friday, March 7th, 2025. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, the Democrats.

A look at how Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are performing. Number two, how a doge vote could help skittish Republicans and Elon Musk.

And number three, John Fleming, remember him, makes his pro-Trump case against Cassidy.

Let's get into it.

Happy Friday, everybody.

What a week in the speech to Congress.

A bunch of stuff on the hill this week.

I can't even remember what the hell has gone on this week.

But the next couple weeks are going to be brutal, man.

Next week we have government funding

due on Friday, a vote in the House sometime early in the week, the Democratic caucuses retreat

in Virginia. The conference, Punch Bowl News's amazing in-person day-long conference,

which features Speaker Mike Johnson, Hakeem Jeffrey's

House Democratic Leader, a bunch of CEOs, including United CEO, Scott Kirby, officials from the

White House, just a whole host NCAA President Charlie Baker at the beginning of March

madness, which is exciting.

And just a very, very exciting week, a very exciting event also.

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