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I'm Anna Palmer.

And welcome to The Daily Punch. Br brought to you by Punchpool News. It's Thursday, May 15th, 2025. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, what happens when you put warring GOP factions in a room? We're about to find out. Number two, President Trump goes all in on noms.

And number three, Chuck Grassley focuses on AI whistleblowers. All right, Jake, let's get into it.

We are leading Punch Bull News a.m. And I'm just going to read this first sentence because I think it's a true encapsulation of where we are at. At 10 a.m. today, Speaker Mike Johnson will bring together the warring factions inside the

House Republican Conference. At stake is President Donald Trump's legislative agenda and the

GOP majority. So high stakes, a lot of people with the tensions are high and there's a lot of frustration in the

House Republican conference. Speaker Mike Johnson is the head of that and he's going to try

to bring everybody together, a family meeting as it were. Yeah, I will leave aside whether I think

that's a mistake or not.

There's certainly risk in doing that.

There's no question about that.

So here's the thing.

All the different factions want things that are unpalatable to other people in the conference.

And it's May 15th.

One week from today is Johnson's deadline to get this thing through the house.

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