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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 Punchable News. It's Friday, May 16th, 2025. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, will House Republicans blink? Johnson hits a wall on reconciliation. Number two, the pressure is on for Pam Bondi.

And number three, the latest in the Michigan Senate race.

All right, Jake, TGIF.

It is a big day once again here as part of a big week on Capitol Hill.

And we have all of our eyes trained on what is happening with House Republicans,

uh,

Speaker Mike Johnson's House Republican conferences in the midst of a low grade rebellion

against the GOP's reconciliation proposal.

Not what Johnson was hoping to have as they cleared a massive week of

markups, but the entire package now is hanging kind of, you know, we're figuring out

whether or not they're going to be able to get the votes here.

Yeah, so it's like squeezing a balloon, Anna. And this is what we write in the AM edition.

You push too hard on one side, the other busts. And we've been talking about this all week.

In fact, we wrote last week, I think it was. We wondered if there is a deal for Johnson.

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