Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to The Daily Punch, brought you by Punchful News. It's Monday, August 11th, 2025.

Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, inside the Senate map.

Number two, Eric Holder is set to huddle with House Democrats on redistricting. And number three,

Dems are sounding the alarm on Medicare pre-approval requirements. Happy Monday, everybody. Jake is

having some technical difficulty, so you did just me solo. Here we go. Let's get

into the top story of the morning. We have only AM additions this week as both the House and Senate are out on August recess.

President Donald Trump is in Washington to start the week. He is scheduled to head to Alaska to meet with Russian

President Vladimir Putin on Friday for a summit over the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian president

Vladimir Zelensky may also attend as well. Another big thing for those of us in D.C. Trump

will also make an announcement today about new federal efforts to fight crime in the

district. Speaker Mike Johnson is in Jacksonville, Wyoming with a group of House Republicans

set for his annual big donor retreat. We reported on some of those speakers last week. All right,

let's get into the Senate 26. Senate Republicans will be defending their

majority next year and relentless pushed by Democrats over Trump's one big, beautiful bill. We are 15

months out from the midterms and Republicans remain the heavy favorites to retain control of the

chamber, thanks to a good

map, despite some pretty high-profile setbacks. Senate Democrats still need to net four

seats to reclaim the majority, a huge hurdle. Now, we've had some recent political shifts,

having moved several key races in Democrats' favor, giving the minority party an

outside chance to pull off a shocker. That, of course, includes the fact that GOP governor

Brian Kemp isn't running in Georgia. Former Democratic Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina

jumped into that race, and Republican infighting in Texas could prove to be disastrous. So let's talk about some

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