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I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to the Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bowl News.

It is Tuesday, March 18th, 2025.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, Ken Paxton plots to take

on Cornyn in a Texas battle royale. We spoke to Paxton yesterday. Number two, Senate budget Republicans

to huddle with the parliamentarian. And number three, the vault inside the scramble to save

CDFIs. Let's get into it yesterday morning.

Myself, Andrew Dissadario, and Max Cohen sat down with Attorney General Ken Paxson of Texas

in Punchball News World Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Paxton is, let's just put it this way.

I'm not going to sugarcoat it.

He's going to run for Senate against John Cornyn.

He might not be saying it directly yet, but he's all but saying it directly.

There was a point in the conversation where he said, we asked him about his, about John Cornyn's position this Congress, his, his position

vis-à-vis Trump this Congress. And he said, after 23 years, he's finally got a real opponent,

potential opponent. So he's running against, he's going to run against John Cornyn, and he said he thinks

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