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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 Punch Bowl News.

It's Wednesday, January 14th, 2026. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, are appropriators getting their mojo back? Number two, Schumer's victory lap and number three,

Banks versus Crypto, the latest on stable coin yield restrictions from our Volt

premium policy coverage. All right, take, let's get into it. We are talking about government

funding and, you know, there's been a lot of talk on this podcast about how Congress has

said. Congress sucks. Okay, okay. It's only Wednesday. Let's take it down a notch. No, but about how Congress has receded and left its power, you know, to the administration, not just this administration, but over years. And what we are seeing right now is appropriators beleaguered. They've been bruised kind of in the shutdown and so many other things,

but they are getting some of their power back.

And it is something to watch because it potentially pretends the idea that Congress could take back some control.

I'm surprised you didn't want to start the podcast talking about my sweatshirt,

which is the George Washington University Revolutionaries,

which plays tonight at home against Davidson in 8-10 conference play. So let's go, Rebs.

Big surprise. I can't believe. What an oversight. Thank you so much for that feedback.

Three and one in the conference. We get it. We need to win tonight. We need to win every game. So let's talk about that first. And and one in the conference. We need to win tonight.

We need to win every game.

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