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It is Friday, May 9th, 2025. Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one,

the half-baked reconciliation plan. Number two, a bipartisan group eyes the stock trading ban.

And number three, the congressional Hispanic caucus heads to Mexico. Let's get into it.

What a week this was. As Mike Johnson said yesterday, Thursday, yeah, he said there's a lot of

misinformation about what House Republicans are considering. Well, there's a lot of misinformation

because this thing is just half baked. They're a year into this. They keep reminding us.

House Republicans keep saying they're a year into this. They've been preparing.

They've been talking. They've been thinking. Then why are so many things undecided? They are.

They're undecided. There is just so much about this bill. And we're not talking about like minor provisions.

We're talking about major core tenants of this reconciliation bill are still undecided and we are days from markup days they're going to mark these things up Tuesday it's Friday we don't have text

and half of the i would say more than half of the bill is undecided.

It's stunning.

It's stunning.

And by the way, none of this is easy.

You know, the leadership keeps saying this isn't easy.

We're in the consensus building game.

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