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The Daily Punch

The Readback: House Republicans’ big reconciliation moment

The Daily Punch

Punchbowl News

Politics, News, Government

4.6666 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Vault co-author Laura Weiss takes you behind the scenes of House Republicans' victory this past week when they pulled off a successful floor vote on their budget resolution to kick off reconciliation. This story was featured in The Readback, our weekend digest featuring the best of Punchbowl News this week. 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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Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Punch Bowl News Readback podcast.

0:39.7

I'm your host, congressional reporter Max Cohen, and I'm very happy to be joined by Laura Weiss,

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our vault co-author, tax expert, and Eagles fan extraordinaire.

0:52.0

Laura, this is her first time back on since Eagles won the Super Bowl.

0:55.5

We had Andrew on a couple weeks ago. Congratulations. I said begrudgingly, but I have to give you the

1:00.1

kudos for your team getting it done. Thanks, Max. Thanks for having me. And more importantly,

1:05.1

thanks for acknowledging Phillies win, Super Bowl MVP, Jalen Hertz. Let's go. Jalen Hertz is one of your favorites.

1:13.1

You also have a very big favorite right now, baby dog, which is Jim Justice's dog.

1:17.8

They're both your top two in your power rankings this week, I'd say.

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Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I mean, you're at work and there's a cute dog being pulled around in a wagon.

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It's great. We need more of that.

1:34.5

If people haven't seen this, please go on Twitter and look up Baby Dog. He is the West Virginia Senator's dog that he takes ever with him and he was in the Senate this week. And it was very exciting.

1:40.2

But we're not here to talk about Baby Dog as much as we wish we could. You have a great readback newsletter item this week on the drama that was the House budget resolution, finally getting adopted, but not in a very smooth fashion.

1:56.3

Talk us through what happened that fateful night, Tuesday night, when Republicans entered the day

2:03.5

saying we're going to bring it up, they pulled it, and they put it back on the floor, and then it

2:08.5

passed. Yeah, it was interesting because it was, you know, in the lead up there for the 48 hours

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before, like that was the question, right, is did they go ahead with this vote? Because it doesn't make

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