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The Daily Punch

Thune vs. Johnson?

The Daily Punch

Punchbowl News

Politics, Government, News

4.3707 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Is the Thune–Johnson bromance cracking? Tensions are rising between the Senate and House GOP leaders as funding fights and the Epstein petition resurface. Plus: Georgia’s messy Senate GOP primary isn’t going away. 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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Good morning, I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punchable News. It's Thursday, November 20th, 2025. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines at the day. Number one, is the bromance over? Tensions rise between John Thune and Mike Johnson.

0:56.3

We've got all the details.

0:59.9

Number two, Republicans not picking size in the Georgia primary.

1:03.3

And number three, crypto is asking Trump for regulatory help.

1:07.0

All right, Jake, we have a hacked edition this morning. But we are starting off looking at how there has been some tensions, right? We have

1:12.6

seen a long held over this past year where Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Speaker

1:17.9

Mike Johnson, have had a pretty collegial relationship, worked fairly well together, but it's a

1:23.3

tale as old as time where the Senate and the House are in different positions on a lot of

1:28.1

different things and those tensions are starting to rise when it comes to the two leaders.

1:32.1

Yeah, that's right. The two issues that are worth talking about at the top here are the Epstein

1:36.9

discharge petition where Mike Johnson said, not said once, but had a poster up at a press

1:43.5

conference of all of his problems with the bill

1:45.6

underlying the discharge petition and said, Thune, I'm hopeful, I'm confident, something like

1:51.9

that. I don't remember the exact words. I could pull it up, but he certainly indicated he thought

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