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The thing about Thune is, and he's just can't help himself.

He's honest.

He said it'll depend on how intensely the White House and the president are interested, which is the most honest thing you could say.

Another reconciliation package will happen if Trump wants it to.

Yeah. Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman.

And welcome to The Daily Punch. Brought to you by Punch Bull News. It's Wednesday, July 2, 2025.

Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, all eyes are on speaker Mike Johnson. Number two, set a majority leader John Thune's victory lap. And number three, Republicans take a look at limiting legal immigration. All right, Jake, let's get into it. We are down to the wire here to meet President Donald Trump's self-imposed deadline of July 4th for the reconciliation bill to pass.

The Senate did the work. It took many hours longer than most like, most wanted. It was inelegant to say the least, but they got it across the finish line. And now we are in your territory, Speaker Mike Johnson. All eyes are on him. The argument that, you know, just vote now because

we got to keep this process going. No longer passes muster. We are at the finish line. Yeah.

Inelegant is a really good way to put it. It was very

inelegant. The Senate did clear the bill, 5150, as you probably know by now, because it was

almost 24 hours ago. Lisa Murkowski voted yes, the most amazing thing, I had two observations.

She really is, and I tweeted this yesterday, she really uses her leverage like no other member of Congress

I've seen in a very long time. And do you want to comment on that? I do want to say because

I got some comments because I said she doesn't fold and people said, oh, well, she ended up voting

for the bill. She got exactly what she wanted. Mostly. She didn't didn't get every some things got knocked out but then

she said afterwards you know did i like this bill no but i needed and this is not a quote it's a

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