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It's Monday, February 17th, 2025.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, the Senate is the only game in town this week.

Number two, introducing the conference. And number three, Do Senate is the only game in town this week. Number two, introducing the

conference. And number three, Doge is on the rampage, but cracks are starting to emerge. All right,

everybody, happy Monday morning. Happy President's Day. We are only publishing AM editions

this week. Let's get into it.

The Senate is the only show in town this week, and they have a lot on their plate.

The chamber comes into session on Tuesday evenings.

Senators will take a procedural vote on Cash Patel's nomination as FBI director

that will then allow Senate Majority Leader John Thune to file cloture

on the highly controversial pick. After that, the Senate will move to confirm Howard Lutnik as

Commerce Secretary. All right, then we've got the next big question, especially what will happen

to the Senate GOP's budget resolution. As we reported last week,

Senate Republican leadership is considering bringing their quote-unquote skinny resolution championed by

Thune and Senate Budget Committee chair, Lindsay Graham, to the floor this week. Now, no final

decision has been made but by GOP leaders yet, but it is likely to happen.

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