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And I'm Jake Sherman.

And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bowl News.

It's Monday, February 10th, 2025.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, the race for reconciliation.

Number two, a big push on noms. And number three, Senate Republicans look to the magic number of 55.

All right, Jake, happy Monday morning. We are focused on the Republican effort this week to make some headway on reconciliation.

In particular, House Republican leaders are looking to cut federal spending by $2 trillion to $2.5 trillion as part of their reconciliation push, according to multiple sources familiar with the talks.

That means they are now looking to dig deeper into Medicaid spending to meet those targets,

including potentially cutting benefits for enrollees.

This could get very complicated, very fast, and kind of puts into the mix an even more challenging environment for Speaker Mike Johnson.

As Senate Republicans look to make their own move because they're frustrated by the delays that House Republicans continue to face here.

Yeah, first of all, let's say congratulations to the Eagles.

We have two Eagles fans on our staff, at least,

and on the editorial side, Laura Weiss and Andrew Dissadero, whatever, what a stupid Super Bowl that was.

But let's talk about where we are on reconciliation.

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