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empower our future. Good morning. I'm Jake Sherman.

And I'm Max Cullen.

And welcome to the Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bowl News.

It is Friday, March 20th, 2026.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, what happens if House Republicans lose the majority?

Number two, Republicans are not sweating the Iran Wars cost quite yet. And number three,

the anti-A-PAC template. Let's get into it, Max. A tough night for you as a University of Pennsylvania

alumnus, they lost. We'll talk about college basketball since Anna's not here,

so we have a little bit of birth here to talk about the greatest sports event ever, the NCAA tournament. What do you say about Penn, which was a late game, Max? You're probably pretty tired. Late game. We held them close. It was a four-point game. It was like 2226. and then it got away from us and Illinois showed why they're a three-seed, you know, Jake.

But that's the beauty of March.

Yeah, that's the upstets.

I want to shout out the A-10.

The A-10, the Atlantic 10, Max, with a St. Louis win over Georgia and a big Virginia Commonwealth win, VCU, over North Carolina, VCU coached

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