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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought you by Punch Bull News. It's Monday, September 23rd, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your

Washington headlines of the day. Number one, the latest on government funding.

Number two, Dems are worried about the Maryland Senate race. And number three, Ukraine is pushing

Congress to reject China's peace plan. All right, Jake, happy Monday. We are once again leading

the top of Punch Bowl News a.m. with what government funding week will look like.

The House and Senate appropriators released a 49 page continuing resolution on Sunday that will

keep federal agencies open through December 20th. We scooped the details for you early. If you are a

premium member, you got a text about it, although it had been

clear for days where this was going to end up. So let's talk about what this all means.

Speaker Mike Johnson put out a dear colleague letter on the bipartisan bill. Johnson says that while

the very narrow bare-bones ER is not the solution any of us prefer. It is the most prudent path forward

under the present circumstances. So what's going to happen, Jake? Yeah, I mean, I think it's actually

the solution a lot of people prefer. Just a lot of people are, a lot of those people are Democrats.

And quite frankly, some Republicans. So, you know, as we've been covering now for a couple

weeks, Johnson had a six-month CR that included the SAVE Act, which had no, which was effectively

a new voter ID law that were forced voters to prove their U.S. citizenship when they went to vote.

Johnson saw that as a winning political and policy issue.

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