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Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,

who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.

Hello!

To him, this is the best sound in the world.

Daddy!

Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.

Now that's term time working.

Offered at Amazon. 10 weeks off guaranteed per year.

Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off. Conditions apply. Good morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to the

Daily Punch Brought to you by Punch Bowl News. It is Thursday, December 21st. 2023. Let's get into

the mix here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one,

the regular order experiment has been a failure. Number two, behind the scenes McConnell warned

the White House about Ukraine and border. And number three, a dissent on the China report.

Let's get into it. This morning we are examining how the appropriations process has been a failure.

After Congress passed, remember December 22, passed a $1.7 trillion omnibus funding bill.

Just about this time, about December 29th, I believe it was.

They 1.7 trillion through Congress. They included Ukraine funding.

And this became the rallying cry of sorts for Republicans who said,

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