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Hello, welcome to the Punch Bowl News Readback Podcast.

I'm your host, congressional reporter Max Cohen, and today I'm joined by a special guest.

We have Brendan Peterson here, co-author of the Vault and

All Things Financial Services for Punch Bowl News. Brendan, thanks for joining me. Good to be here.

Great to have you on. We're going to talk about a number of topics this week. We're going to start off

with a fun one, which is the topic of your readback newsletter item this week, which is how

the federal government shutdown impacted your dry cleaning. Yeah, there's a lot of conversation

about who won or lost the shutdown. And ultimately, I do believe I was one of the losers

because I had laundry that I,

there's a nice laundry spot in Longworth, in the ground floor of Longworth. It's dry, D.R. Y, Y.

Very nice people, very good people. And I brought my laundry in, I believe, two days before the shutdown began.

It was my first time using this particular business.

And the nice lady behind the counter told me, hey, we will not be doing laundry during the

shutdown.

Like your stuff, you will not be able to get your stuff.

And I said, that's cool.

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