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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 Future of Medicine: State of Play

9 mins; May 13, 2025

It's markup day!

13 mins; May 13, 2025

Why we're in for a wild reconciliation week

14 mins; May 12, 2025

The Readback: The rocky start to appropriations

16 mins; May 10, 2025

The reconciliation bill is not ready for prime time

10 mins; May 09, 2025

Why no deal helps SALT Republicans

10 mins; May 08, 2025

House mods get a win, as conservatives seethe

14 mins; May 07, 2025

What you need to know about reconciliation

14 mins; May 06, 2025

Will Republicans ever get a reconciliation deal?

15 mins; May 05, 2025

The Readback: Our Amazon scoop

17 mins; May 03, 2025

Reconciliation hits a rough patch

16 mins; May 02, 2025

The perils of punting

14 mins; May 01, 2025

Day 101: Big tests for Trump's economic agenda

8 mins; April 30, 2025

Can Republicans meet the new July 4 deadline?

13 mins; April 29, 2025

Trump, Congress and the next 100 days

11 mins; April 28, 2025

The Readback: The GOP’s Medicaid mess

13 mins; April 26, 2025

Booker backs Schatz for No. 2 leadership slot

6 mins; April 25, 2025

What Durbin's retirement means for Democratic leadership

14 mins; April 24, 2025

What the House has on deck

10 mins; April 23, 2025

Treasury eyes debt limit end date

12 mins; April 22, 2025

House GOP leaders eye early May rescissions vote

9 mins; April 21, 2025

The Readback: Vulnerable Republicans send a warning on Medicaid

10 mins; April 19, 2025

Leader Look: Johnson and Jeffries

11 mins; April 18, 2025

Leader Look: Thune and Schumer

13 mins; April 17, 2025

Some Republicans set limits on Medicaid cuts

9 mins; April 16, 2025

Why Trump isn't signing many laws

11 mins; April 15, 2025

Johnson's first quarter haul

10 mins; April 14, 2025

The Readback: Budget resolution drama

16 mins; April 12, 2025

Thune riffs on $1.5T in cuts

9 mins; April 11, 2025

Ones to Watch: Advancing with AI - Economic Investment

11 mins; April 10, 2025

Inside Mike Johnson's next play

8 mins; April 10, 2025

Republicans are moving budget resolution toward the floor

9 mins; April 09, 2025

How Johnson will try to put down the rebellion

10 mins; April 08, 2025

The sound of chaos

9 mins; April 07, 2025

The Readback: D.C. budget brouhaha

12 mins; April 05, 2025

Can Republicans pass tax cuts in Trump's unpredictable world?

17 mins; April 04, 2025

Tariffs, taxes and Trump

11 mins; April 03, 2025

Thune's survive-and-advance strategy

19 mins; April 02, 2025

Republicans begin to openly fret about Trump's tariffs

16 mins; April 01, 2025

A week that will tell us a lot about the Trump presidency

15 mins; March 31, 2025

The Readback: Carr makes news

14 mins; March 29, 2025

We got the Republicans’ budget plans

9 mins; March 28, 2025

The Ones to Watch: Advancing with AI - Workforce

10 mins; March 27, 2025

How Republicans are speeding up reconciliation

9 mins; March 27, 2025

GOP leaders get unified on reconciliation

8 mins; March 26, 2025

The senators we're watching as House pitches its budget

15 mins; March 25, 2025

Inside the week's most important Hill meeting

11 mins; March 24, 2025

The Readback: The Zooms behind the firings

13 mins; March 22, 2025

Trump’s power play

10 mins; March 21, 2025

The 2026 House battlefield is smaller than ever

13 mins; March 20, 2025

Inside how Schatz is angling for leadership

15 mins; March 19, 2025

What Ken Paxton told us about John Cornyn

10 mins; March 18, 2025

Schumer and Jeffries huddle in Brooklyn

9 mins; March 17, 2025

The Readback: The Conference and The Power List

14 mins; March 15, 2025

Schumer folds and the party explodes

10 mins; March 14, 2025

The Ones to Watch: Advancing with AI - Cybersecurity

9 mins; March 13, 2025

Schumer's two options as a shutdown nears

15 mins; March 13, 2025

Will Senate Dems shut down the government?

9 mins; March 12, 2025

Johnson and Jeffries face off with a shutdown on the line

15 mins; March 11, 2025

Four days until the deadline: Will Congress avoid a shutdown?

13 mins; March 10, 2025

The Readback: What Trump asked Congress to do during his speech

15 mins; March 08, 2025

Schumer, Jeffries and the perils of the minority

7 mins; March 07, 2025

How Trump broke House Democrats

8 mins; March 06, 2025

The Golden Age of Pettiness

8 mins; March 05, 2025

How Washington could stumble into a shutdown

10 mins; March 04, 2025

Three crises facing Trump and Republicans

9 mins; March 03, 2025

The Readback: House Republicans’ big reconciliation moment

15 mins; March 01, 2025

Judging Johnson and Thune

16 mins; February 28, 2025

The Ones to Watch: Advancing with AI - Energy Innovation

9 mins; February 27, 2025

Is the government going to shut down?

15 mins; February 27, 2025

A huge win for Johnson. Now comes the hard part.

17 mins; February 26, 2025

Johnson is getting squeezed

13 mins; February 25, 2025

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

16 mins; February 24, 2025

The Readback: A head-spinning week for GOP hawks

13 mins; February 22, 2025

The Senate passed its budget resolution. What does that mean for the House?

9 mins; February 21, 2025

How Johnson views where the House is on reconciliation

7 mins; February 20, 2025

The Senate GOP's big gamble with their ‘skinny’ budget plan

13 mins; February 19, 2025

A new fight for Republicans' foreign policy future

8 mins; February 18, 2025

What will happen to the Senate GOP’s budget resolution?

12 mins; February 17, 2025

The Readback: MTG's path to the DOGE subcommittee chair

15 mins; February 15, 2025

House GOP gets a win on budget plan, but what’s next?

11 mins; February 14, 2025

The easy part on Trump's agenda is about to end

13 mins; February 13, 2025

The dueling budget chairs: How Arrington and Graham are playing their hands

13 mins; February 12, 2025

Rough days for Democrats in GOP-run Washington

12 mins; February 11, 2025

The race for reconciliation

12 mins; February 10, 2025

The Readback: The reconciliation rollercoaster

14 mins; February 08, 2025

Vance is now in charge of TikTok deal

7 mins; February 07, 2025

Johnson, House GOP to meet with Trump as frustration builds

15 mins; February 06, 2025

The options to jumpstart the Trump agenda

9 mins; February 05, 2025

The USAID fight both sides want

16 mins; February 04, 2025

After this weekend, can Democrats help Trump?

13 mins; February 03, 2025

The Readback: Dispatch from the House GOP retreat in sunny Miami

14 mins; February 01, 2025

The January leader look

16 mins; January 31, 2025

Tulsi Gabbard's consequential hearing

11 mins; January 30, 2025

Democrats were in the dumps — until Trump helped them out

13 mins; January 29, 2025

House Republicans' pitfalls in executing Trump’s agenda

14 mins; January 28, 2025

Trump headlines GOP retreat as budget battle heats up

12 mins; January 27, 2025

The Readback: Behind the scenes of Trump's second inauguration

13 mins; January 25, 2025

Inside the room: Where House Republicans are looking to slash

8 mins; January 24, 2025

Who runs the House? Trump

12 mins; January 23, 2025

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