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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 Bowl News. It's Thursday, January 23rd. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington

headlines of the day. Number one, enter Speaker Donald Trump. Yep, you heard that right.

Number two, congressional lawmakers, I, the Governor's Mansions. And number three,

Trump insider Jeff Miller, is set to host some big fundraisers. All right, Jake, let's get into it.

We have a very interesting top this morning looking at how President Donald Trump has been in the

office for just three days. And in that time, he's only tightened his grip on House Republicans.

So we're introducing everyone this morning to Speaker Donald Trump.

Not saying that to denigrate Speaker Mike Johnson, but clearly a shift in how Trump has seen his relationship, role, importance of Capitol Hill since when he was first elected in 2017.

Yeah, this is not an insult to Jogson. This is just the reality of Donald Trump.

I mean, he is running the House of Representatives in a way that, let's put it this way. Not only

did speakers not do in the past, but even Trump himself didn't do in the past.

You know, in 17 to 21, Trump, like, you know, he didn't really understand Congress.

And he didn't get it.

He didn't, he didn't really care after four years in the White House.

And let me actually add to that.

You know, he felt like he was being misled by people, whether it was Paul Ryan, the House Freedom Caucus.

And like he didn't know.

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