Washington's Baltimore funding play
The Daily Punch
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🗓️ 29 March 2024
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| 0:54.9 | Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punchable News. It's Friday, March 29th, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, how Washington is looking at paying for the Baltimore Bridge. Number two, the latest on Ukraine funding and number three, |
| 1:01.1 | impeachment articles coming to the Senate. All right, Jake, let's get into it. We are leading this |
| 1:06.9 | morning's Punchball News AM newsletter with the top focused on the price tag for the Francis |
| 1:12.7 | Scott Key disaster. Washington, of course, is in the very early stages of its response to what |
| 1:19.7 | happened in Baltimore, and there are a ton of conversations going on between the Biden administration |
| 1:24.9 | and Capitol Hill, between Capitol Hill and Annapolis, |
| 1:28.3 | and between the Biden administration and state and local officials in Maryland. |
| 1:33.0 | And while, of course, nothing has been decided thus far, not even all of the victims of the |
| 1:38.8 | disaster have been recovered at this point. |
| 1:41.1 | But these early talks are important to consider because the price take is going to be |
| 1:47.2 | extremely large, potentially several billion dollars, Jake. Yeah, that's right. And this is going to |
| 1:54.8 | become a, this is going to become, let me actually take a step back here. We are going to cover this very, |
| 2:02.3 | very, very closely. Why? Because this will be a test, a few reasons why. This will be a test of how |
| 2:08.8 | Congress responds to a disaster and its new configuration with a speaker who has been in office, |
| 2:16.7 | you know, not that long. And he struggles to make decisions. He's been in |
| 2:21.7 | office 156 days. And this incredibly tight configuration, tight breakdown of Congress is important to, it's important to think about. It's important to |
| 2:37.9 | consider how this will impact something like responding to a disaster, which by the way, |
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