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The Daily Punch

Trump to the Senate: Change it up!

The Daily Punch

Punchbowl News

Politics, News, Government

4.6666 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Jake discusses the dynamics between House and Senate Republicans as the House-passed reconciliation bill heads over to the Senate. Plus, How Dems plan to weaponize reconciliation votes. 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 Jake Sherman and welcome to the Daily Punch brought to you by Punchball News. It is Monday, May 26, 2025. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, one big, beautiful headache. Number two, the Republican senator playing good cop for Trump in Canada. And number three, how Dems are going to weaponize reconciliation votes. Let's get

0:57.0

into it. The top this morning. Donald Trump landed yesterday, or was about to take off, I guess it was,

1:03.4

yesterday, and was asked about the reconciliation bill in the Senate. Here's what he said. I want the

1:08.4

Senate and the senators to make changes if they want.

1:14.5

It will go back to the House and we'll see if we can get them. In some cases, those changes may be something I'd agree with, to be honest. I think they're going to have changes. Some

1:18.4

will be minor. Some will be fairly significant. Now, compare this, compare this to what

1:23.5

Speaker Mike Johnson said to me and to basically anybody with ears for the last, I don't know,

1:31.5

month. He told me that he went to the Senate Republican conference meeting last week and shared

1:37.1

from the heart about how difficult it was to cobble together a package that could get 218 votes.

1:42.9

Here's a quote, if it wasn't obvious for them,

1:44.6

I wanted them to know the equilibrium

1:46.2

that we reached is so delicate.

1:48.9

My hope and my encouragement to them

1:50.9

is fine-tune this product

1:52.3

as little as possible.

1:53.7

Johnson likened the task

1:56.5

of getting a reconciliation built

1:58.2

through the house to crossing over

2:00.3

the Grand Canyon on a piece

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