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

September 9th, 2021.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, more difficult issues on Capitol Hill are coming into focus for the end of September.

Number two, we've got the latest on reconciliation.

And number three, why Dems are giddy over Donald Trump's 22

endorsements. All right, let's get into it. Jake, the number one story of the morning. We are

kicking off Punchable News a.m. with it. September, we keep talking about how messy it is,

but it is getting even messier.

Yeah, it's kind of crazy when you think about it.

So a few things that came up in the last 24 hours that we, that kind of forced us,

or not forced us, but made us inclined to write this top here, is that, so not only is, does Congress have the government funding to deal with, they're probably going to extend funding until the end of, or until the beginning of September, of December,

rather. Not only do they have the debt limit, then they have abortion legislation. They are going

to try to codify the legality of abortion in the House of Representatives. The bill has the,

the bills by Judy Chu,

longtime Democratic Congresswoman of California. She has more than 200 Democratic co-sponsors.

You could read a little bit more about the bill and the background in the newsletter this morning, but that's a big deal. I mean, I imagine it's going to pass. I guess I haven't done a

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