The Daily Punch

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.

News
Politics
Government
351
The 2026 House battlefield is smaller than ever
11 min
352
Inside how Schatz is angling for leadership
14 min
353
What Ken Paxton told us about John Cornyn
9 min
354
Schumer and Jeffries huddle in Brooklyn
7 min
355
The Readback: The Conference and The Power List
13 min
356
Schumer folds and the party explodes
9 min
357
The Ones to Watch: Advancing with AI - Cybersec...
7 min
358
Schumer's two options as a shutdown nears
14 min
359
Will Senate Dems shut down the government?
7 min
360
Johnson and Jeffries face off with a shutdown o...
13 min
361
Four days until the deadline: Will Congress avo...
12 min
362
The Readback: What Trump asked Congress to do d...
14 min
363
Schumer, Jeffries and the perils of the minority
6 min
364
How Trump broke House Democrats
7 min
365
The Golden Age of Pettiness
7 min
366
How Washington could stumble into a shutdown
8 min
367
Three crises facing Trump and Republicans
8 min
368
The Readback: House Republicans’ big reconcilia...
13 min
369
Judging Johnson and Thune
15 min
370
The Ones to Watch: Advancing with AI - Energy I...
9 min
371
Is the government going to shut down?
14 min
372
A huge win for Johnson. Now comes the hard part.
16 min
373
Johnson is getting squeezed
11 min
374
With a budget vote expected tomorrow, it's a bi...
14 min
375
The Readback: A head-spinning week for GOP hawks
12 min