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It is Wednesday, March 5th, 2025.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, the golden age of pettiness.

Number two, Senate Democrats face a potential squeeze on a year-long CR.

And number three, Tillis' big fundraiser hits a snafu.

Let's get into it.

The state of the union was last night.

And the voice that you're hearing on this podcast is a complete put on. I am exhausted. We, that was a really long state of the

union. I was saying to one of our, uh, someone who works in the hill and, and, um, someone that is a supporter of President Donald Trump

that I think we should put language in Congress should put language in a CR to cap the

state of the union at one hour no matter who the party is, which party's in charge of the White House, rather.

That was a long one. But the president is allowed to speak for as long as he or she wants.

It was a very interesting state of the union. And what we wrote this morning is that it is the era of pettiness. And

trolling has become the focal point. Both Republicans and Democrats, Trump and Democrats,

in different ways, have turned the once dignified event, which was the height of American

political pompous circumstance into a tire display of

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