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

It is Thursday, March 28th, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, on voting no and taking the dough. Number two, how the White House plans to fund rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. And number three, Dick Durbin puns a

hearing with airline and payment CEOs. Let's get into the mix. Number one, $71 million in

earmarks were approved by Congress for lawmakers who eventually voted

against the most recent minibus spending bill. We did an analysis. We had this idea a couple days

ago. We should take stock of the folks who got earmarks in the bill, in the six bill,

1.2 trillion dollar spending package,

but eventually ended up voting against that bill.

Now, there's a lot of intervening factors here.

When people submit earmarks,

they don't know what the bill is looking,

it will look like at the end of the day.

But the idea and the theory and the kind of the unofficial rule of thumb, when you were a

member of Congress, when you are a member of Congress and you got an earmark in a bill back

of the day, there would be no way that you could vote against it. This is a bit of a extenuating circumstance

according to some lawmakers because of the conflict in Israel, the people didn't know that there

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