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Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Punch Bowl News Readback podcast.

I'm your host, Max Cohen.

And today I'm joined by Sammy Handler, our policy reporter extraordinaire.

Sammy, thanks for joining.

How you doing?

Thanks for having me, Max.

I'm doing well.

How about you?

Doing good.

Doing good.

We've had a busy week here in Capitol Hill.

And in one of the most busy areas of the capital is the appropriations process and all of that fun stuff going on with funding the government and setting funding levels for the next year.

Now, a lot of the talk has been a reconciliation, but I want to have you on the

podcast to talk about approbes because I know this is something you are following very closely.

So just tell our audience listening at a home, what happened this week in appropriations?

Yes, believe it or not, there were things happening on Capitol Hill this week that were

outside of the reconciliation process.

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