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Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch. By 5.2i Punch Bowl News. It's Monday, September 20th, 2021.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, we've got the top three issues dominating Washington.

Number two, there are 11 days until the government runs out of money.

Will it be a shutdown showdown?

And number three, the Senate parliamentarian has ruled.

A pathway to citizenship is not going to be allowed in reconciliation.

We've got the latest.

All right, Jake, it is going to be a jam-packed week.

Both the Senate and House are back in Washington in session for the first time

since July. Take us through the top three issues that you are focused on. Yeah, so this is the day

we've been waiting for. This is September 20th. This is the first day Congress and the House and the Senate are back together at the same time in a long time. And we have 10 days until the government shuts down. And so let's just go over the top three things here and how they all tie together. Number one, these are kind of a preview of what we're going to talk about this morning.

We have the struggle to pass Joe Biden's agenda, um, you know, reconciliation, infrastructure,

both kind of hanging out there. Neither of them have a very clear, I'm not saying neither.

I don't think we're going to say that neither of them will pass. They both could pass.

One could pass.

I don't think one could pass without the other.

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