Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman.

And welcome to The Daily Punch. Brought to you by Punch Bull News. It's Wednesday, February 19th, 2025. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, the Senate moves ahead with its skinny budget plan. Number two, Republican Hawks

lose power. And number three, the latest on government funding. All right, Jake, let's get into it.

We are leading off this morning's Punch Bull News a.m.

Look at the big gamble and the continuing rivalry here between the Senate and House

about what is the best way forward to enact President Donald Trump's agenda.

The Senate, frustrated by the slow-moving House, trying to move with one big, beautiful

bill, is now going to move forward on its own. They have kicked off their biggest gamble so

far of the 119th Congress, beginning debate on a $300 billion plus skinny budget resolution

despite opposition from both Democrats and

House Republicans. This is just the latest kind of back and forth right now.

Unclear if this gamble will work, will force House Republicans hands, but Senate Republicans

unwilling to kind of be blamed for Trump's agenda, not moving forward here.

Yeah, I just want to remind everybody that the House and Senate need to pass the same budget.

It's not unusual for them to pass both, both pass different budgets, but at some point they

need to pass the same budget.

So what does that mean?

It means that the two-part budget, or really the one-part budget that will be two later on when they try to

pass taxes, is very different than the budget that the House is considering. And we're not even,

I haven't even started, you know, we're not even writing today. We will write in the next

couple days

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