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Find out more at G.co'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bull News. It's Tuesday, March 25th, 2025. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, Senate Republicans to watch on reconciliation.

Number two, are House Republicans about to blow a Florida special in deep red country. And number three,

Hoyer and other Dems want a doge hearing. Jake, it is a very busy Tuesday morning here at Punchbowl News.

But before we get into all of that, we got to talk about the story that everybody in Washington

and around the world is thinking about, talking about, trying to understand.

And that is, of course, the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg's bombshell story about the Trump administration, chatting about war plans on Signal.

I think truly probably the most stunning and we write this morning perhaps idiotic breach of protocol in Washington in recent memory.

This is stunning just in terms of, one, how it's out in the public.

Now, two, that this is how they're kind of doing their behind-the-scenes discussions.

But three, you know, for Republicans, this has to be concerning in particular, just, you know, for Republicans, this has to be concerning, in particular, just, you know,

in terms of protocol and the Hill looking to, you know, investigate.

You know, the new line seems to be that this, well, a few things.

Pete Hegseth said this is not a,

he wasn't sharing war plans, which he clearly was,

and that Jeffrey Goldberg is a hack, which he is, he's not,

but it's also irrelevant because the administration has already basically

confirmed that not basically. The administration has already confirmed that this was a legitimate

text message and they were quote investigating or I don't know if there's a quote, but they

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