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It is Monday, December 2, 24. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, welcome back the December rush is here.

Number two, inside the House Democratic contest for top committee posted number three,

Mike Johnson's shrinking majority, which races are still in play?

Let's get into it.

Good morning, everybody.

Welcome back.

Hope you had a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful

Thanksgiving. The House is back tomorrow. The Senate returns today and has vote scheduled for

this evening. 18 days until government funding expires. The new Congress will be sworn in

32 days from today. And President

Donald Trump will take the oath of office for the second time in just 49 days. This Congress is

coming to an end, this very eventful Congress in which we saw two speakers of the House, two Republican

speakers of the House. But there are a lot of challenges between now and the new Congress

and the new presidency. Congressional leaders, Donald Trump and Joe Biden, face an immediate

challenge, many immediate challenges on finding a deal on short-term government funding.

The House Republicans have been floating a mid--march end date less than two months into

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