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Hello and welcome to the Punch Bowl News Readback podcast. I'm your host, Congressional Reporter Max Cohen, and this week I'm joined by a very special guest, Laura Weiss, our

tax and financial services reporter, the co-author of The Vault, our financial

services product, and it's Laura's podcast debut. How are you doing? Welcome to the show.

I'm good. Thanks so much for having me, Max. I'm thrilled to be here. It's been a long time coming.

I know. So, Laura's been wanting me to get around the pod for a while. The timing finally worked out.

And we're very glad it coincides with a special moment.

It's the Vault Quarterly Edition came out this week.

And we have so much to talk about.

Very exciting.

And as everyone knows who's listening to this podcast and who reads Punchable News,

it is a great time to be falling tax with reconciliation planning in full swing.

So I'll get right down to it.

We had a great interview with Joshua Bolton, the Business Roundtable CEO.

Laura, tell me what you took away from the interview and what you think the role of the

business roundtable will be under a Trump, Washington.

Yeah, definitely. I think it's a really interesting time for the business roundtable will be under a Trump Washington. Yeah, definitely.

I think it's a really interesting time for the business roundtable, which is why we wanted

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