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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch. Brought

you by Punchable News. It's Monday, January 20th, 2025. Happy inauguration and MLK Day. Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, what's different about Trump's 2025 return?

Number two, what will happen with TikTok?

And number three, the latest from the canvas, a special inauguration edition.

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

We were busy over this weekend, sending out a special edition on Sunday.

Trump's return to Washington is effective officially today once he's sworn in.

But we are already feeling the reverberations of a new approach that the incoming president-elect and his team are having when it comes

to Capitol Hill. Yeah, happy Monday, happy inauguration day. We focused this morning on the changes.

Well, we focused on a number of things. Number one, the inauguration. Let's talk about that for a second.

The inauguration today follows a typical kind of cadence that we've seen for inaugurations for,

I don't know, as long as I've been doing this, which is Trump goes to the White House, has tea with President Biden,

his wife, the incoming first lady, Melania Trump, and Jill Biden, and then they go to

the Capitol for the inauguration. The inauguration this time around is in the rotunda, which is,

I don't know, 200 feet from where we sit every day.

Maybe a little bit more than that, but whatever.

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