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.
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The 2026 House battlefield is smaller than ever
11 min
527
Inside how Schatz is angling for leadership
14 min
528
What Ken Paxton told us about John Cornyn
9 min
529
Schumer and Jeffries huddle in Brooklyn
7 min
530
The Readback: The Conference and The Power List
13 min
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Schumer folds and the party explodes
9 min
532
The Ones to Watch: Advancing with AI - Cybersec...
7 min
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Schumer's two options as a shutdown nears
14 min
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Will Senate Dems shut down the government?
7 min
535
Johnson and Jeffries face off with a shutdown o...
13 min
536
Four days until the deadline: Will Congress avo...
12 min
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The Readback: What Trump asked Congress to do d...
14 min
538
Schumer, Jeffries and the perils of the minority
6 min
539
How Trump broke House Democrats
7 min
540
The Golden Age of Pettiness
7 min
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How Washington could stumble into a shutdown
8 min
542
Three crises facing Trump and Republicans
8 min
543
The Readback: House Republicans’ big reconcilia...
13 min
544
Judging Johnson and Thune
15 min
545
The Ones to Watch: Advancing with AI - Energy I...
9 min
546
Is the government going to shut down?
14 min
547
A huge win for Johnson. Now comes the hard part.
16 min
548
Johnson is getting squeezed
11 min
549
With a budget vote expected tomorrow, it's a bi...
14 min
550
The Readback: A head-spinning week for GOP hawks
12 min