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Weekday mornings, The Daily Punch brings you inside Capitol Hill, the White House and Washington for an unfiltered look at the key players and stakes of all major issues of the day. Power. People. Politics. Hosted by Punchbowl News founders, journalists and best-selling authors Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman.

The Senate strikes back

11 mins; April 03, 2026

The AI Innovators: Cybersecurity

8 mins; April 02, 2026

Reconciliation 2.0: Challenges, Opportunities and Tensions

11 mins; April 02, 2026

Could Dems blow it in Virginia?

13 mins; April 01, 2026

Trump and Johnson vs. Thune

13 mins; March 31, 2026

Republicans' DHS mess

10 mins; March 30, 2026

Readback: The Hill's spring tech bloom

11 mins; March 28, 2026

Senate passes DHS funding — without ICE and CBP

11 mins; March 27, 2026

Fly Out Day: Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern on how he'd change the House

33 mins; March 26, 2026

How will this DHS shutdown end?

13 mins; March 26, 2026

Is the DHS deal falling apart?

10 mins; March 25, 2026

Inside the deal to open DHS

10 mins; March 24, 2026

What John Thune offered Donald Trump

10 mins; March 23, 2026

Readback: Paul and Mullin clash in DHS hearing

14 mins; March 21, 2026

Who will lead the House GOP if they lose?

12 mins; March 20, 2026

Fly Out Day: Indiana Sen. Banks on the Iran war and the SAVE Act

38 mins; March 19, 2026

The AI Innovators: Education

9 mins; March 19, 2026

Trump drags Congress into war

12 mins; March 19, 2026

Inside the House GOP's Latino problem

9 mins; March 18, 2026

Could AIPAC faceplant in Illinois?

12 mins; March 17, 2026

Congress returns to a perfect storm

11 mins; March 16, 2026

Readback: DHS fight heats up on the Senate floor

9 mins; March 14, 2026

Fly Out Day Live at the Punchbowl News Conference

22 mins; March 13, 2026

Thune and Trump hit the skids

8 mins; March 13, 2026

Lankford on the filibuster and Iran

35 mins; March 12, 2026

Trump’s on the ROAD to nowhere

12 mins; March 12, 2026

A tough time to be a Hill Republican

11 mins; March 11, 2026

Trump's plan to save midterms? Voter ID law

12 mins; March 10, 2026

Iran, the SAVE America Act and the House GOP retreat

11 mins; March 09, 2026

Readback: Iran war fallout on Capitol Hill

9 mins; March 07, 2026

House GOP eye reconciliation 2.0

12 mins; March 06, 2026

Fly Out Day: California Rep. Ro Khanna sounds alarm on war in Iran

36 mins; March 05, 2026

The AI Innovators: Health care

10 mins; March 05, 2026

Republicans want it both ways on Iran

15 mins; March 05, 2026

Texas' big night

12 mins; March 04, 2026

Hill GOP won't stop Trump's Iran war

10 mins; March 03, 2026

Congress’ war over the war

11 mins; March 02, 2026

Readback: House Democratic retreat recap

17 mins; February 28, 2026

Will Dems secure the House majority?

10 mins; February 27, 2026

Fly Out Day: CA Sen. Alex Padilla on DHS shutdown and 2026

32 mins; February 26, 2026

The SAVE America Act looks dead

9 mins; February 26, 2026

The Trump show at the Capitol

15 mins; February 25, 2026

Why Reconciliation 2.0 is much harder now

11 mins; February 24, 2026

And we're back... kind of

14 mins; February 23, 2026

Readback: My Texas trip takeaways

15 mins; February 21, 2026

Is Crockett going to top Talarico?

6 mins; February 20, 2026

A new flood of corporate cash for 2026

12 mins; February 19, 2026

The Ken Paxton survival strategy

7 mins; February 18, 2026

Dems submit new DHS counterproposal

10 mins; February 17, 2026

A DHS shutdown with no urgency

14 mins; February 16, 2026

Readback: The first Tally of 2026

14 mins; February 14, 2026

Jordan on Epstein files, DOJ & 2026 elections

41 mins; February 13, 2026

Why the DHS shutdown could drag on

8 mins; February 13, 2026

Dems review W.H. offer

11 mins; February 12, 2026

House blows open gates on tariff war

14 mins; February 11, 2026

Dems reject Trump's DHS proposal

15 mins; February 10, 2026

Will Congress get a DHS deal?

12 mins; February 09, 2026

Readback: Finally getting Library of Congress-official

14 mins; February 07, 2026

The Big Four and the DHS shutdown

14 mins; February 06, 2026

Fly Out Day: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna vs. Senate Republicans

41 mins; February 05, 2026

The GOP’s affordability crunch

8 mins; February 05, 2026

What happens with DHS funding in 9 days?

13 mins; February 04, 2026

The shutdown should end today

9 mins; February 03, 2026

Shutdown: What to expect today

9 mins; February 02, 2026

Readback: The Senate’s funding fight

15 mins; January 31, 2026

The Senate-W.H. deal problem

12 mins; January 30, 2026

Fly Out Day: Inside the funding fight with Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto

39 mins; January 29, 2026

The Schumer and W.H. funding talks

10 mins; January 29, 2026

Senate searches for an out

12 mins; January 28, 2026

Trump is backed into a corner

14 mins; January 27, 2026

The shutdown cometh

12 mins; January 26, 2026

Readback: Congress’ Copenhagen course-correction

15 mins; January 24, 2026

IndyCar meets Capitol Hill

10 mins; January 23, 2026

Fly Out Day: Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar on the frontlines of the funding fight

36 mins; January 22, 2026

A wild day in the House

12 mins; January 22, 2026

Rubio returns to the Hill

12 mins; January 21, 2026

The House's week

11 mins; January 20, 2026

In Denmark, Congress confronts the monster it helped create

7 mins; January 19, 2026

Readback: Please let the financial policy reporters sleep

16 mins; January 17, 2026

A broken plane and a leadership flub

13 mins; January 16, 2026

Fly Out Day: How Virginia Sen. Kaine is battling Trump

37 mins; January 15, 2026

Obamacare deal looks dead in the Senate

7 mins; January 15, 2026

Wow, Congress is actually governing

12 mins; January 14, 2026

How Trump is blowing up capitalism

13 mins; January 13, 2026

Can the Hill save the Fed?

12 mins; January 12, 2026

The Readback: Waking up in Vegas with chips on my mind

12 mins; January 10, 2026

Republicans stumble into 2026

12 mins; January 09, 2026

Fly Out Day: Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt on why the U.S. needs Greenland

43 mins; January 08, 2026

Trump scrambles health care talks

13 mins; January 08, 2026

Venezuela tests Democrats

14 mins; January 07, 2026

Congress steps on the gas pedal

17 mins; January 06, 2026

Venezuela: Trump's biggest challenge to the Hill yet

9 mins; January 05, 2026

The Readback: 5 years of Punchbowl News

19 mins; January 03, 2026

The Readback: What is Brendan Carr up to?

14 mins; December 20, 2025

Schumer's bad year

13 mins; December 19, 2025

Fly Out Day: NY GOP Rep. Mike Lawler on defying leadership

38 mins; December 18, 2025

Discharges, discord and drama: Inside the House

16 mins; December 18, 2025

Decision time for House GOP mods

12 mins; December 17, 2025

House GOP's health care week goes sideways

10 mins; December 16, 2025

Inside new House health care drama

13 mins; December 15, 2025

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