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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 Punch Bowl News. It's Tuesday, January 16th, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, the plan to avoid a government shutdown. Number two, we've got a tax deal. And number three, the latest on investigations. But first things, first, Jake, the federal government is closed today as well as D.C. public schools due to the snow. Obviously, that's going to potentially impact what happens with the House and Senate votes scheduled for this evening. I was traveling yesterday

and the local D.C. airports were a mess. So going to be very interesting considering we're just

three days from a partial government shutdown.

Yeah, so they're going to have to make a decision in quickly.

So the leadership in the house, so this DCA, by the way, right now is atop the misery map,

which is the flight aware, um, uh, kind of, uh, measure of delays and cancellations.

And this is obviously all due to the weather.

But I can attest to that, Jake, actually.

I want you to know my misery,

my own misery map last night.

Your misery map was high.

Yeah, yeah, well, there are, yeah, so it is, it is, it's not looking good for Washington National Airport.

But listen, there's about two to three inches of snow, which should be able, and I think the snow, right now it is 4.53 a.m.

The snow, according to what I just saw, looks to be slowing slash stopping.

So we'll have to see if that holds up.

But let's put it this way, Anna.

The Senate cannot afford to put off its cloture vote tonight. That is tonight. That's more than 12 hours away. So we're going to have to see if

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