There were no official events on President Trump’s White House schedule Thursday. Many assumed that was in order to have leverage to orchestrate the signing of the Republican tax bill.

So when the president exited the White House unannounced, many reporters we’re puzzled.

Instead of a ceremony for the legislation, Trump spent his day at Walter Reed Hospital.

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Congress continues to scramble to pass a short-term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown on Friday.
After passing historic tax reform legislation on Wednesday, Congress started a two-day scramble to pass a stop-gap spending bill that would avert a government shutdown on Friday.

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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced rules protecting taxpayers from “massive” student loan costs Wednesday.

The Department of Education (DOE) unveiled a tiered relief system that will provide aid to defrauded borrowers in an amount commensurate with their earnings, reported The Hill.

The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday denounced the Trump administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, an move that U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley said would cause Washington to rethink its financial support of the international organization.

In a 128-9 vote, the UNGA passed a resolution, drafted by Egypt, that expresses “deep regret at recent decisions concerning the status of Jerusalem.”

After passing major tax cuts in 1981, President Ronald Reagan won re-election in a massive landslide, which hints at President Trump’s future.

During his freshman year in office, President Reagan signed the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 meant to encourage “economic growth through reductions in individual income tax rates.”

Doesn’t that sound familiar? It should because that was President Trump’s primary objective behind his recently-passed tax reform bill.

A group of House Republicans has gathered secretly for weeks in the Capitol in an effort to build a case that senior leaders of the Justice Department and FBI improperly — and perhaps criminally — mishandled the contents of a dossier that describes alleged ties between President Donald Trump and Russia, according to four people familiar with their plans.

Gun store owners in Port Allen and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, claim to have lost approximately $70,000 in Christmas sales due to the inaccessibility of the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

WBRZ reports that “the FBI acknowledged an issue occurred on its NICS website” but gun store owners throughout Louisiana say the background check system “crashes every year” around Christmastime.

The Democratic National Committee closed out November 2017 fundraising with a few million in debt.

On the other hand, the Republican National Committee closed November with no debt and a surplus, according to the Federal Election Commission.

Fundraising for the DNC saw its lowest point for November in ten years. The following is a yearly breakdown of DNC November fundraising:

Two Romanian hackers compromised 65 percent of Washington D.C.’s outdoor surveillance cameras as part of a widespread extortion scheme.

The two alleged hackers, Mihai Alexandru Isvanca and Eveline Cismaru, were named last week in a criminal complaint filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

Senator Rand Paul has called for an investigation into senior Obama officials who could have actively tried to prevent Donald Trump being elected.

Paul sent out the call via Twitter:

Paul’s comments come in the wake of further revelations that members of Robert Mueller’s investigative team looking into the Russian collusion conspiracy theory are virulently anti-Trump.

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