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And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch. Brought you by Punchful News. It's Thursday,

September 30th, 2021.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, the playbook Democrats are using to avert a government shutdown.

Number two, what's going to happen on infrastructure?

And number three, our latest five questions.

All right, Jake, let's get into it. Last night,

Congress decided to go out to the ball game, play their Republicans versus Democrats annual

event at Nat's Park instead of working in the halls of Congress to actually keep the government

open, but it appears they do have a plan.

Yeah, that makes sense, right? I mean, we are now, it's 19 days from defaulting on the debt.

We are less than 24 hours from a government shutdown. We are on the brink of collapse of a major part of the president's agenda, at least temporarily,

and they played a baseball game, not as if they couldn't play.

They could cancel the baseball game, but anyhow.

So I guess we could start with government funding, right?

I mean, they're going to do, they're going to, they're going to, they're going to avert a shutdown

today, almost certainly.

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