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Good morning. I'm Brendan Peterson.

And I'm Laura Weiss.

And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bowl News.

Today is Thursday, May 28, 26.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, midterms, who cares about those?

Number two, reconciliation divides Iowa's battle for house seat.

And number three, next stop for war powers, Scotus, question mark.

President Donald Trump made a startling admission on Wednesday as he was meeting with his cabinet when he said, quote, I don't care about the midterms. He said, quote, look at what happened last night. That was a

preview of the midterms when he was pointing to the overwhelming defeat of incumbent GOP

Senator John Cornyn of Texas by the scandal-plagued Attorney General

Ken Paxton in the Senate Republican runoff. Republican leaders are afraid that

Paxton's victory puts Texas in play this November at the cost of hundreds of millions of

dollars. But Trump does not seem focused on restoring Americans' faith in the U.S. economy.

And that's a huge political problem for both GOP congressional leaders and vulnerable Republicans as they try to save their endangered majorities.

Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune don't say it publicly, but privately, this stuff alarms the Republican leadership.

Yeah, Brendan, this is a huge problem for Republicans.

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