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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punchpool News. It's Wednesday, February 14th, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, why the foreign aid bill might be dead in the House. Number two, Mitch McConnell on his Ukraine aid pressure campaign and what it means for the Senate.

And number three, Steve Scalise returns to Washington. All right, Jake, let's get into it.

We have been covering the twists and turns of the Senate foreign aid bill and its intricacies

over the weekend and its final passage earlier this week. Now all eyes are on speaker

Mike Johnson and whether or not he has any pathway forward when it comes to moving this legislation in the house.

You have a very detailed account about the unlikelyhood that it actually moves forward.

I'll let you take it away.

Yeah. Well, here's the issue.

And we'll start with this.

But, but, but, and we said this yesterday, but Mike Johnson needs to, he needs to

articulate some sort of path forward. Because right now there are, we'll start kind of from

the bottom up here. There are two options to get this passed without the leadership,

bring it to the floor. That's a discharge petition,

which requires 218 signatures. Democrats have a petition already ripe, meaning it doesn't take a lot

of time to, it doesn't need to sit in the, and marinate for 30 days like most discharged petitions

do. So, but a bunch of Democrats will drop

off. They'll need to get a lot of Republicans on board. I don't think it's going to work.

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