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The Daily Punch

Senate gears up to jam the House

The Daily Punch

Punchbowl News

Politics, News, Government

4.6666 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The Senate is about to jam the House on reconciliation — and many GOP senators are cheering it on. Plus, President Donald Trump took on Iran without congressional approval and lawmakers are racing the clock to respond. Can Congress rein him in? Or is it already too late? Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress? Subscribe to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter at punchbowl.news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Wall Street Journal editorial board is hailing President Trump and Senator Cruz's Spectrum deal,

0:06.4

saying it will facilitate innovation, make the Internet safer, reduce consumer costs,

0:12.4

and foster competition while protecting American defense systems.

0:17.1

The first Trump administration jump-started America's 5G lead.

0:21.5

This deal will secure it by delivering the spectrum to grow our economy, create jobs, and lead the industries of the future.

0:29.5

To keep America first, Congress should pass the deal now.

0:33.6

Presented by CTIA.

0:46.0

Thank you. Presented by C-T-I-A. Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer.

0:48.3

And I'm Jake Sherman.

0:49.5

And welcome to The Daily Punch.

0:50.9

Brought you by Punchable News.

0:52.1

It's Tuesday, June 24th, 2025.

0:55.2

Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one is the Senate about to jam the House.

1:02.0

Senate Majority Leader John Thune's risky strategy. Number two, Dems move forward on a war powers vote.

1:07.8

And number three, a crypto slowdown in the Senate. All right, Jake, let's get into it.

1:12.9

As always, we are focused on all things reconciliation as we quickly are coming up to that July 4th

1:21.3

deadline and a really interesting look this morning, kind of at the macro politics, but then also at some of the kind of stickier,

1:30.3

thornier, I don't know, whatever word you want to use, points that are still being negotiated

1:34.7

in this package by senators, Medicaid cuts, and you look at salt, et cetera. But let's kind of zoom out

1:40.5

top line here. I thought it was super interesting where you have Senate Majority Leader

1:45.4

John Thune saying like basically we're going to create our bill and we're going to use President

1:49.5

Donald Trump to jam the House. Yeah. I mean, listen, there's a certain, let me actually start

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