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Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Punchable News Rebag podcast.

I'm joined for the second week in a row by Laura Weiss, who was along the ride for every step of the way for reconciliation this week.

Laura, I know it was a late night on Thursday, it was Thursday morning.

So late night Wednesday, early morning Thursday, you are a person in the Thursday, it was Thursday morning. So late night, Wednesday, early morning Thursday,

you are a person in the room, in the action as the House Republicans finally passed their

reconciliation package. What was it like along that process? Yeah, thanks for having me, Max. Yeah,

it's been an absolutely wild week.

I mean, you know, coming into this week, we had the Budget Committee meeting Sunday night

at 10 p.m.

They had to reconvene after basically not having the votes, having a failed vote last Friday.

Feels like a million years ago. I can't

believe that was last Friday. But, you know, there were all these negotiations through the

weekend. And basically, the House of Republican leadership was able to get it to a place where

at this late night budget markup, they were able to get the votes from the conservative

hardliners, but they voted present. They basically let this go through, but they weren't on

board yet. And it was just an absolutely furious few days of negotiating of making deals with

Blue State Republicans who wanted a higher salt cap,

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