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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer.

And I'm Jake Sherman.

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

It's Tuesday, March 19th, 2024.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, we've got the latest on government funding. Number two, Senator John Thune adds some outside muscle. And number three, the tally, what to watch

in Ohio and Illinois. All right, Jake, let's get into it. We are leading Punch Bowl News a.m.

With a shift, you know, yesterday we said that it looked like a potential government shutdown

was potentially going to happen. Now we have White House officials and top aides to the big four

congressional leaders reaching a deal on the difficult area of Homeland Security funding on Monday night,

setting up a contendous

week on Capitol Hill, but certainly forward progress. Yeah, no, listen, I still think there could be,

there could likely be a funding lapse here. I just want to make a point, Anna, if you were thinking

of one weekend of the year to not have Congress be in session. It would be this weekend.

This is the first weekend of the NCAA tournament.

It is the most exciting weekend potentially on the sports calendar.

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