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

It is Tuesday, February 27, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, your Big Four meeting cheat sheet. Number two, Ron Dermer tells us Israel

Israel needs U.S. aid yesterday. And number three, McCall tussles with Blinken again. Let's get into it.

Today, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, and the vice president of the United States,

Kamala Harris, are meeting with the

big four congressional leaders. That'll be at the White House in the Oval Office, presumably,

at least that's what the schedule says. The big four, of course, is Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House,

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and Senate Minority

Leader Mitch McConnell.

This is the key decision-making nucleus of the federal government.

It is, again, as I said a second ago, it's Tuesday.

The government shuts down on Friday.

We still haven't seen a bill.

We have no idea what Congress is going to do. They haven't said what they're

going to do. They have, if they want to avert a shutdown and not pass a CR, we need to see a bill

today. Even, I would let me even up the ante here early this Tuesday morning, if they want to pass a

CR, the house, they need to release it

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