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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punchable News. It's Friday, October 3rd, 2025. Let's get in the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, no end in sight how John Thune sees shutdown politics.

Number two, drama in Illinois.

Emily's list weighs in on the Senate primary.

And number three, the Senate NDAA hits crunch time.

All right, Jake, let's get to it.

We are continuing in a government shutdown here. It is day three of a government shutdown and there is no deal in sight

to end this crisis. John Bresdenhand and Andrew Desiderio set down with Senate Majority Leader

John Thune Thursday afternoon. We're going to talk all about all the things he had to say,

but let's just get into the state of play. The Senate's set to vote for the fourth time on the GOP's November 21st StopGap funding bill, as well as the Democratic counteroffer this afternoon. Both are expected to fail and then senators will head home for the weekend. Soon has said the Senate will try again on Monday. Informal talks on Obamacare subsidies continuing. But, I mean, the dynamics here

aren't changing. No, they're not. They're not. I mean, listen, if there are more Democrats today

than there were on whatever the last day was, they voted on this. I guess it would have been

Wednesday. Wednesday. Yeah, then that would be progress theoretically.

And that kind of leads nicely into what Thune told us or what Andrew and Bres wrote, which

is the answer to this shutdown in Republicans' view is not Chuck Schumer.

It is the rank and file getting sick and tired of a shutdown. Republicans see hope that, you know, it went from one to three, but we'll have to see where it goes today. And, and just let's remember, the House has not been in. The House comes back in on Monday after not having voted since September 19th, Anna, which is just, that's a long time ago in the middle of all of this.

You know, they are, they have a lot of tools left.

I mean, Russ Vote and the president are going to make this incredibly painful.

And it won't only be painful for the time being, because as Kevin Hassett told us on

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