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The Daily Punch

What to make of Musk, Ramaswamy and DOGE

The Daily Punch

Punchbowl News

News, Government, Politics

4.3707 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are coming to Capitol Hill today to talk DOGE. Plus: The CBC is mum on support for Rep. David Scott in the House Ag race. Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress? Subscribe to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter at punchbowl.news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:42.8

And I'm Jake Sherman.

0:44.0

And welcome to The Daily Punch.

0:45.4

Brought to you by Punchball News.

0:46.6

It's Thursday, December 5th, 2024.

0:49.4

Let's get into the mix.

0:50.4

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

0:52.9

Number one, Doge comes to Congress.

0:55.5

Number two, will Dems take out another committee leader? And number three, we've got the latest

1:00.0

on Punch Bull News Premium's Tech Policy Launch. All right, Jake, let's get to it. We are leading

1:06.0

Punchpole News AM with a look and some big questions about will Congress surrender to the doge?

1:15.3

Megabillionaires, Elon Musk, and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramoswamy are coming to Capitol

1:20.8

Hill today to talk about their much hyped effort to cut government spending and streamline the

1:26.1

federal bureaucracy.

1:27.7

That's something we've never heard somebody talk about the need for.

1:32.2

I'm kidding.

1:33.2

The meeting is at 3 p.m. after the Senate leaves town.

1:37.0

So interesting timing here.

1:39.0

But certainly Republicans are bear hugging the idea of finding cuts, creating caucuses around this,

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