The Schumer and W.H. funding talks

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🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the White House are negotiating a framework to pass five of the six outstanding FY2026 funding bills as the shutdown clock ticks. Anna and Jake discuss the details. Plus, what a Senate deal would mean for Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans. Watch this episode on YouTube here! Punchbowl News is on YouTube⁠ ⁠Subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to our channel today to see all the new ways⁠⁠ ⁠we’re investing in video.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 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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0:00.0	Presented by Salesforce.
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0:23.6	over 5,000 veterans on our own team. Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer.
0:42.7	And I'm Jake Sherman.
0:43.7	And welcome to The Daily Punch.
0:45.0	Brought to you by Punchable News.
0:46.2	It's Thursday, January 29th, 2026.
0:49.0	Let's get in the mix.
0:50.2	Here are your Washington headlines of the day.
0:52.3	Number one, the latest on government funding can Democrats thread the needle with the White House?
0:56.9	Number two, what's next for the House?
0:58.3	And number three, campaign news in the land of Lincoln.
1:01.7	All right, Jake, let's get to it.
1:03.5	We are leading Punchball News AM with a bunch of news here on how things are shaping up with government funding, Democrats and the White House trying to find a pathway forward here.
1:16.0	Give us the latest.
1:17.2	Yeah.
1:17.4	So we're going to talk about this.
1:18.9	I guess we'll talk about this in two pieces, which is first, overnight, the Senate Democrats and the White House are in discussions to pass five spending bills and a stopgap
1:29.3	funding bill for DHS funding. And as you said, January 29th and tomorrow's January 30th when
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