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Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punchful News. It's Wednesday,

November 22nd,

2023. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one,

moderate Republicans are worried about the GOP's hardline abortion rights stance. Number two,

the vault takes a look at the economy. And number three, what all the retirements mean for the house.

All right, Jake, let's get into it.

Our last edition of the Daily Punch before we have two days off for Thanksgiving.

We have a really interesting top here by Nika and Max looking at abortion and how that issue is really becoming a central

worry for center-right lawmakers because of the stance that the conservative-dominated

House Republican Conference has taken. And the fact that a lot of these moderates

are the majority makers and they think their leadership is screwing up on abortion. Yeah, you know,

Anna, you just said two days off. And that seems like not a lot, but I guess it is just two weekdays

off for Thanksgiving, Thursday and Friday.

Happy Thanksgiving to everybody who is celebrating, which I assume is most people.

And furthermore, I hope you are not traveling today because today is a really bad day

to travel.

I am traveling today.

The abortion issue is something that we're watching in real time, Anna. I'm curious what

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