{"podcast":{"title":"The Daily Punch","slug":"the-daily-punch-1373025","podcast_index_feed_id":1373025,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/daily-punch","website_url":"https://punchbowl.news/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/1ae4e08c-568c-11eb-b60f-03cfd1d66f70/image/19825ac50fa7028f20a2c32e81f7cff4.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Punchbowl News","episode_count":1517,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T08:17:51.536470+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-punch-1373025"},"episode":{"title":"Reconciliation is getting much harder","slug":"reconciliation-is-getting-much-harder","published_at":"2026-06-01T10:26:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-punch-1373025/reconciliation-is-getting-much-harder","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-punch-1373025","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/BUBNW5701971667.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/BUBNW5701971667.mp3","summary":"With five months until Election Day, Congress returns to a tough legislative environment, as lawmakers face a major challenge: two of the president’s key priorities conflict. Anna and Jake discuss the latest on reconciliation. Plus, a breakdown of the highway bill’s next hurdles. Watch this episode on YouTube here! Punchbowl News is on YouTube⁠. ⁠⁠⁠Subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to our channel today to see all the new ways⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠we’re investing in video.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter at ⁠⁠punchbowl.news.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"With five months until Election Day, Congress returns to a tough legislative environment, as lawmakers face a major challenge: two of the president’s key…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":763,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-daily-punch-1373025/episodes/reconciliation-is-getting-much-harder/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-punch-1373025/reconciliation-is-getting-much-harder.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}