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to The Daily Punch Brought to you by Punchmore News. It's Tuesday, January 2nd,

2024. Happy New Year.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, the five storylines that will drive Washington this year.

Number two, what we learned from the latest round of financial disclosures.

And number three, Tesla hires a new lobbying firm. All right, everybody, good morning and

welcome back. We hope you had a safe and happy holiday season. Punchable news is back and there is

plenty to cover. We are 17 days away from a partial government shutdown. Congress returns,

of course, next week. While things are a little slow here in Washington, we thought it would

be useful to lay out the most important storylines this year. We, of course, are staying intently

focused on the politics of governing and legislating in the nation's capital.

Clearly, the 2024 election is the biggest political story of the year, but we're also drilling

down on the other key plot lines for the coming weeks and months. So let's get to it.

The biggest thing we are covering right now, government funding.

It's the most immediate challenge Congress has to deal with.

There was a pair of government funding deadlines during the next month.

As we reported in the AM edition Monday, there's still no fiscal year 2024 top line funding deal.

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