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The Daily Punch

With a budget vote expected tomorrow, it's a big week for Congress

The Daily Punch

Punchbowl News

Politics, News, Government

4.6666 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Speaker Mike Johnson has a lot on his plate: A tricky budget resolution vote followed by a shutdown fight. Can he get them done? Plus: DOGE's recent activities are making some Republicans wary. Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress? Subscribe to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter at punchbowl.news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer.

0:43.4

And I'm Jake Sherman.

0:45.0

And welcome to The Daily Punch.

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Brought to you by Punch Bowl News.

0:49.4

It is Monday, February 24th, 2025.

0:51.0

Let's get into the mix.

0:53.1

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

1:14.8

Number one, it's a big week for House Republicans. First up the budget resolution, then government funding. Number two, Republicans here in earful on Doge back home. And number three, what to watch in the Senate. All right, Jake, let's get into it. It is a massive week for House Republicans. They are trying to move at a speed we usually do not see here in Washington. Speaker Mike Johnson and the House GOP leadership

1:21.9

are planning on putting their multi-trillion dollar budget resolution on the floor Tuesday.

1:27.9

That leaves less than one day in session for Johnson, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise

1:32.1

and House Majority Whip Tom Emmer to get their rank and file members in line before the high stakes vote.

1:38.3

This is a very big risk here and a tricky decision by the leadership of House Republicans to do this,

1:46.3

trying to create that sense of urgency, but not giving themselves basically any room for error, Jake.

1:52.9

Yeah, so there's like, there's three things that are going on right now that are interesting to me.

2:00.1

And this is what our top says this morning.

2:04.8

As just reviewing what you just said here, they have a budget on the budget resolution on the

2:10.4

floor this week. They're doing it Tuesday. So today's Monday. Tomorrow's Tuesday.

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