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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer.

And I am Jake Sherman.

And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought you by Punch Bowl News. It's Wednesday, August 13th, 2025.

Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, what Trump's BLS pick will face in the Senate?

Number two, Schumer's recruitment wins.

And number three, Representative Barry Moore's Alabama Senate bid.

All right, Jake, let's get into it.

We are leading off Punchable News a.m.

With a look at what is going to happen here when it comes to Trump's Bureau Labor Statistics, pick the gauntlet he will face, you know, kind of digging into his past.

Of course, this is E.J. Anthony, who is currently the chief economist at the Conservative Heritage Foundation.

Trump's decision to oust the current commissioner has caused a lot of waves.

We're kind of across business units who are looking and want to have as much government data as possible. But let's talk a little bit from our perspective. E.J. is going to have to face committee hearing, is going to have to face Senate confirmation. This is going to be complicated for Trump. Yes. Well, let's take this in two parts. Number one, Trump didn't like the jobs data, so he can the jobs data person.

So that's the basic start of it. And he has hired E.J. Anthony, who is the chief economist at Heritage, as you said.

Brendan did a great job, and we felt like we had to weigh in, not on the, not on

Antony specifically but

he this is subject to to senate confirmation you know this is not like a put the dude in

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