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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. 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 Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, the big topic of the month, government funding. Will Dems find a strategy when it comes to dealing with the Trump administration and congressional

Republicans? Number two, Democrats are going after Senator Susan Collins on stock trading.

And number three, Corey Gardner, remember him. The former Colorado Republican senator is going to be

installed as the new head of the

Telecom Trade Association, NCTA, leading a big hole at the Senate Leadership Fund Super PAC.

We have all the details, Jake. All right, let's get into it. We are leading Punchball News

AM with a return to Washington and a welcome, a warm welcome to all the lawmakers who will be

seeing our team up on Capitol Hill in the hallways, in the basement all week as they return

after a month away. But the big thing, I mean, there's a lot on the plate, right? We could talk about

a myriad of different things, which we kind of listed yesterday. But the real thing that's coming into focus is less than 30 days government funding.

28 days. And that includes, Anna, just 14 legislative days because the House and Senate are out

the week of September 22nd for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year., typically Congress gets that weekend off or those days off.

And we talked about this a little bit yesterday, and let's talk about it a little bit more.

And we're going to talk about it a little bit tomorrow and the next day.

Yeah, yeah. And every day probably until September 30th or even beyond that. If you, right now,

sitting here this morning, 446, September 2nd, a government shutdown seems more likely than not.

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