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Good morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to The Daily Punch Brought to you by Punchball

News. It is Monday, February 26th, 2024.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, welcome to shutdown week.

Number two, House Republicans eye holding the Majoricus impeachment articles.

And number three, Hunter Biden to the Hill on Wednesday.

Let's get into it.

It is shutdown week.

The government shuts down on Friday, a partial shutdown.

Several bills are coming due.

That's the ag, energy, and water, milconvier, transportation HUD bills.

This is the first of two deadlines, thanks to Mike Johnson's, um, uh, laddered CR.

Uh, this is a CR that has, uh, two deadlines.

One March 1, 1 March 8th.

So if one deadline wasn't enough for you, one shutdown deadline wasn't enough for you, we have two

in roughly a week. So we are now five months effectively, almost five months into the fiscal year

2024, and Congress still hasn't approved a single of the annual spending bills.

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