The Leader Look: Thune and Schumer

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🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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It’s Leader Look time! Anna and Jake discuss how Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are doing. Plus, President Donald Trump is putting down the hammer on Senate Republicans in an effort to get them to vote for his $9 billion rescissions package by the end of next week. Anna and Jake take a look at where things stand. Punchbowl News is on YouTube! Subscribe to our channel today to see all the new ways we’re investing in video. Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress? Subscribe to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter at punchbowl.news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.2	Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Anna Palmer.
0:42.2	And I'm Jake Sherman.
0:45.2	And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punchable News.
0:48.2	It's Friday, July 11th, 2025.
0:49.8	Let's get into the mix.
0:51.9	Here are your Washington headlines of the day.
0:54.2	Number one, we've got a Senate leader look,
1:00.9	a temperature check on how Thune and Schumer are doing. Number two, Trump amps up the pressure on the recisions package. And number three, we've got some new fundraising numbers down in Texas.
1:06.6	All right, Jake, let's get into it. We are focusing our AM on a regular feature we do, a leader look, kind of a bed check on how does everybody think each of the leaders are doing?
1:17.7	This week, we are featuring Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Minority Leader.
1:23.0	Chuck Schumer will take on the House leaders next Friday.
1:27.1	But let's just, let's just kind of wrap here
1:29.3	about Thune. I think he's, he's looking like he is having a pretty good six months right now.
1:35.7	If you are John Thune, you got over the biggest hurdle, very complicated reconciliation package.
1:41.5	You've held together. Your relationship with Donald Trump is looking strong.
1:45.8	I mean, I feel like he's leaving town this week feeling like, you know, things are looking pretty good.
1:50.7	Yeah. Plus he did that big Instagram video of him taking like a doing a flip off of a boat on his July 4th recess.
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