meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Daily Punch

The Three Amigos vote no — again

The Daily Punch

Punchbowl News

Politics, News, Government

4.6666 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Senate narrowly advanced the White House’s $9 billion rescissions package late Tuesday night, but the bigger story: who opposed the procedural votes and why. Anna and Jake discuss the trio of GOP appropriators who voted against moving forward with the Republican-only effort.   Plus, another huge, politically charged deadline looms at the end of the year: the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium tax credits are set to expire. The stakes? 4.2 million Americans could lose health insurance coverage. 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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Presented by Verizon. Verizon has launched its small business supplier accelerator with a commitment to spend $5 billion on American small business suppliers over the next five years. Through this new program, Verizon is introducing new, flexible solutions and resources, like faster payment terms, modified insurance requirements,

0:23.2

and adjusted edemification requirements to make it easier for small businesses to work with Verizon.

0:30.0

Visit Verizon.com slash accelerator for more. Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch.

0:48.0

Brought to you by Punchable News. It's Wednesday, July 16th, 2025. Let's get into the mix. Here are your top Washington headlines. Number one,

0:55.9

the three amigos ride again, but the Senate still finds votes on rescissions. Number two, Republicans

1:01.6

wrestle with Obamacare again. And number three, Crypto's dramatic week in the House.

1:08.2

All right, Jake, there is so much to get to. We're also going to talk a little bit about FEC numbers.

1:12.8

But let's talk with the top story this morning on rescissions, Senate Republicans.

1:20.4

You know, you've had three Republican senators willing to buck Donald Trump and Republican leadership.

1:28.2

That, of course, is Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and funny enough, Mitch McConnell.

1:33.6

I've heard of him.

1:34.6

He's not in leadership, not having to direct the ship.

1:38.7

He is free to do what he wants to do.

1:41.1

But Senator John Thune moving the rescissions package along.

1:44.7

And it looks like there's going to be voterama, but this is going to get through.

1:48.4

Yeah, it does look like that on its Wednesday.

1:51.1

So it would be nice if they, it'd be nice for Mike Johnson if they got this through like,

1:56.5

I don't know, today.

1:57.8

So the house could deal with it tomorrow ahead of the Friday.

2:01.9

Only they did things that were nice for Mike Johnson and for you.

2:04.8

You know, get it done by Friday and make it easy.

2:06.9

It's mostly for me.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Punchbowl News, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Punchbowl News and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.