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By JAKE SHERMAN (sherman@politico.com; @JakeSherman), ANNA PALMER (anna@politico.com; @apalmerdc), DANIEL LIPPMAN (daniel@politico.com; @dlippman) and ZACH MONTELLARO (zmontellaro@politico.com; @ZachMontellaro)


TAX BILL PASSED -- THE HOUSE passed the tax bill 224-201, once again, sending it to PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP for his signature.

Good Wednesday afternoon. SPOTTED: REINCE PRIEBUS having lunch on Tuesday with PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP in the West Wing and walking around and saying hello to old colleagues.

TODAY IS ONE OF THOSE where we just wait. The House Republicans planned to push a short-term government funding bill, a renewal of a key part of surveillance policy and a bill that provides $81 billion for disaster funding.

-- IF REPUBLICANS GET ON BOARD, this could all be done by tomorrow evening. But there's rumbling from some Republicans that they'll hold it up, risking a Friday night shutdown. WHAT REPUBLICAN LEADERS ARE ASKING: Uh, guys, get out of your own way. We just passed tax reform. Why would you complicate a good political week?

DACA ALERT -- @SahilKapur: ".@JeffFlake says Mitch McConnell 'has committed to bring the bipartisan DACA bill we are currently negotiating to the Senate floor in January.'" Seung Min Kim, Heather Caygle and Elana Schor's story from this morning on the backstage work on a Dreamers deal http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3f5de867d80ad6c09b18cbc3bb7494f97abf22af68cf2b6c72ae5d705db39dde3ff4e8b26398b8ad4272fcfc16f22c01

NYT'S NATE COHN (@Nate_Cohn): "Live interview generic ballot polls in December CNN D+18 ... Quinnipiac D+15 ... Monmouth D+15 ... Marist D+13 ... POS (R) D+12 ... NBC/WSJ D+11"

-- CNN'S JENNIFER AGIESTA on their poll: "That 18-point edge is the widest Democrats have held in CNN polling on the 2018 contests, and the largest at this point in midterm election cycles dating back two decades."

-- THESE NUMBERS indicate a Democratic wave. But we're still more than 10 months out from election day.

THE NEXT DEMOCRAT TO WATCH -- JERRY NADLER wins top Dem post on House Judiciary -- Heather Caygle: "House Democrats have tapped New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler as their next leader on the Judiciary Committee, the panel that would potentially initiate impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump if Democrats win back the House. ...

"Nadler won a decisive victory over Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) in a caucus-wide election Wednesday morning. Lofgren, a former immigration lawyer, is the second-most senior member on the panel behind Nadler. ... The caucus voted 118-72 in Nadler's favor Wednesday. Nadler, who has served on the panel since first coming to Congress a quarter-century ago, was thought to have a slight edge over Lofgren going into this week." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3f5de867d80ad6c0ac9012d15cd6ac9d0541302ee0c95fd7c30bb4bbfc67007a01500d958eee42bd00f13aa592015bef

-- IT'S WORTH NOTING: Lofgren is a close ally of Nancy Pelosi.

PRESS SECRETARY SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS said there will be a "bill passage event" at 3 p.m. today at the White House with members of the House and Senate, per pooler Louise Radnofsky of the Wall Street Journal. Sanders: "This is not a signing event as the bill would still need to be enrolled and that will happen at a later date. We will keep you posted on details as they are confirmed."

-- @HallieJackson: ".@Marcshort45 tells me POTUS *may* end up signing this tax bill at Mar-a-Lago. Also says it's looking likely Congress will punt gov't funding showdown to January."

-- @RealDonaldTrump at 9:32 a.m.: "The Tax Cuts are so large and so meaningful, and yet the Fake News is working overtime to follow the lead of their friends, the defeated Dems, and only demean. This is truly a case where the results will speak for themselves, starting very soon. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!" ... at 11:50 a.m.: "I would like to congratulate @SenateMajLdr on having done a fantastic job both strategically & politically on the passing in the Senate of the MASSIVE TAX CUT & Reform Bill. I could have not asked for a better or more talented partner. Our team will go onto many more VICTORIES!"

THE WINTER WHITE HOUSE -- "Mar-a-Lago hikes New Year's Eve party ticket prices," by Darren Samuelsohn: "Partying with President Donald Trump on New Year's Eve is getting more expensive. Ticket prices for the annual Dec. 31 bash at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in South Florida are going up to $600 for dues-paying members and $750 for their guests, according to members of the private Palm Beach club. Last year's tickets went for $525 for members and $575 for guests.

"The lavish party in the Donald J. Trump Grand Ballroom and the surrounding grounds has plenty of perks, including a red-carpet entrance, a multi-course meal, a popular cover band and the chance to meet celebrities -- Sylvester Stallone and Fabio were there to welcome in 2017 -- as well as the president himself ....

"Officials at the White House and Trump Organization did not respond to requests for comment about the 2018 New Year's Eve party. Bobby Burchfield, the Trump Organization's outside ethics adviser, said in an interview Tuesday that while he had not been consulted about the Dec. 31 event, he wasn't bothered by the arrangement. 'I personally don't see any issues that are raised,' he told POLITICO. 'It's not a campaign event. It's a normal business New Year's Eve party.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3f5de867d80ad6c0244a4b25ae6de6c24712f8f5d6d09fd574b4b7ec61faf401e2c19ac802cbe5a2a741b804bb5f4cfd

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A STORY PROBABLY HEADED TO THE PRESIDENT'S DESK -- "'People here live in fear': MS-13 menaces a community seven miles from the White House," by WaPo's Michael Miller and Dan Morse: "It took Abigail Bautista less than a month of living in Langley Park to learn that her new neighborhood in Maryland had its own set of laws, written not in statutes but in gang graffiti and blood. The Guatemalan mother of five was pushing a cart of merchandise along University Boulevard one winter morning in late 2012 when three young men approached.

"'Do you know who we are?' one asked her in Spanish. Bautista shook her head. 'We are La Mara Salvatrucha,' he said. 'And here, there are rules.' ... The gang's operations in Langley Park range from opportunistic to organized. Members sow terror with random assaults on residents and brazen attacks on rivals. In one six-month stretch last year, MS-13 killed four members of other gangs in neighboring Lewisdale, according to court records. The gang also runs brothels and extortion operations, the proceeds from which it sends to leaders imprisoned abroad." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3f5de867d80ad6c009335b811189c05fd2efcecc88793fd464bbaa395edf7ffacc99864db34888d966fc0adbc8a03de8

TAX BILL TICK TOCK -- "Over Golf and an Airport Chat, Trump and GOP Hashed Out a Historic Tax Plan," by WSJ's Peter Nicholas, Richard Rubin and Siobhan Hughes: "Over rounds of golf at President Donald Trump's club in northern Virginia in October, Sen. Lindsey Graham offered a warning: If the tax plan fails, the Republicans are 'dead' as a party. Coming off the slow-rolling collapse of the party's effort to overhaul health-care laws, 'the consequences of going 0-for-2,' Mr. Graham (R-S.C.) said, would be 'just devastating.' The message stuck. ...

"The move [to cut the individual mandate] did threaten to drive off Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a moderate Republican who worried that eliminating the individual mandate would roil insurance markets. Ms. Collins was one of the no votes on the health-care repeal bill and White House aides knew from bitter experience they could ill-afford to lose her.

"Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and adviser, flew to Maine on Nov. 10 and Ms. Collins met her at the airport. Ms. Trump had sat out the health-care fight, not wanting to push for a bill she didn't support, a person familiar with the matter said. But she liked the tax plan. Ms. Trump and Ms. Collins spoke privately in an airport conference room about the senator's concerns, and then they drove together to a forum on taxes. The following week, the president, his daughter, Sen. Collins, Sen. Graham and others met in the Oval Office." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3f5de867d80ad6c047c8bbf3591961912061e0c2b24a416fcbff0eea1ebb75535c5f6273a0074d0113f2ebce5d52134a

2018 PREVIEW -- "Puerto Rico governor vows midterm revenge for tax bill," by Lorraine Woellert: "Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló says he plans to mobilize 5.3 million Puerto Ricans living on the mainland to shake up the midterm elections in states ranging from Florida to California. Rosselló, a Democrat and member of the island's pro-statehood New Progressive Party, is infuriated about a Republican tax plan that he says could hobble the island's economy even as thousands of residents remain without power and water three months after Hurricane Maria.

"'Everybody has seen the damage of the storm and yet policy decisions go in the opposite direction of where they should go,' Rosselló said in an interview with POLITICO on Tuesday. 'We're not just going to stand by. We are going to take action.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3f5de867d80ad6c021945d92d51b8469d16741c2ca12530b4d1d88a69d6a4f3ee4e35ce2a6ff08e88b96a98108f5cf5d

DATA DIVE -- IDAHO is the fastest-growing state in the nation, growing 2.2 percent from July 2016 to July 2017, according to new numbers from the Census Bureau. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3f5de867d80ad6c0fe28aa1a349a08ac3a53aff28615e2d9b38570ff6c90c0036a29c7aec99dce86226581c905bf6873

ON THE WORLD STAGE -- Reuters: "May to EU citizens: 'I want you to stay' after Brexit": "Back from Brussels with a hard-fought Brexit deal, Prime Minister Theresa May wrote an open letter to the three million citizens of other European Union states living in Britain. 'I know our country would be poorer if you left and I want you to stay,' she wrote after striking the initial agreement, which promises to secure their British residency rights after Brexit and allows the negotiations to move onto trade relations." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3f5de867d80ad6c021d8230eb0ca1474d9ac044c824725bc2b69064b031367d6184f041bddc8d85709d4504af17f7a24

WHAT HAPPENED -- "Breitbart went all out for Roy Moore. Now its top editor says he was a 'weak candidate'," by CNN's Oliver Darcy http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3f5de867d80ad6c0b135c2135b52471815768e31b6f9fc576f6d9a932dfa32150f554cbd12df58f8fb34b4535aaa9d6f

CAMPAIGN STOP -- "New hope, new problem: Will Federal Election Commission shut down?," by the Center for Public Integrity's Dave Levinthal: "Absent speedy intervention by President Donald Trump and the U.S. Senate, the FEC could soon lose at least two commissioners, and with them, the requirement that four commissioners be present to conduct high-level business such as making rules, levying fines, approving audits and offering political committees official guidance." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3f5de867d80ad6c00be84e18c70869084f64b3c4f27a616b64d2d73fa10c8e526f1026fd82879d3e3f3b904e0892bc3f

CLICKER - NYT -- "The Year in Pictures 2017" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3f5de867d80ad6c0fecf36f6288ebbfcb915282bf0513808eaead584b0fcc8502788a2fb74da4fd63a077e1b602cc3ad

NEW MORNING MONEY -- BEN WHITE talks with MICHAEL FROMAN, the former U.S. trade representative during the Obama administration, on how the tax bill will affect the trade gap. Listen on Apple Podcasts http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3f5de867d80ad6c02f310dd7ce00af096287013ee1dd063a4decd6fd8cebfd38cb601047f4c277160da1e37b0228eb6a ... On Stitcher http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3f5de867d80ad6c02396f87f63b57065b5c6d70ee7af4be0463cefaba9e85efd360f04968e5e111bdc89baa8eb622dd1

SPOTTED: GARY COHN having dinner and holding court at a table in front of the fireplace at the back of Off the Record last night. He and some other White House staffers were there waiting to head up to the Hill for the Senate tax vote. Cohn was in the Capitol until 1 a.m.

-- HOW COHN WILL CELEBRATE -- @charliespiering: "Gary Cohn on where he is going after tax cuts pass 'I'm going to Aspen where there is no snow and it's going to be really cold'".

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Victoria Logsdon, celebrating at RPM Italian tonight ... Alex DeParde, in his final year at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto (h/t Dick Keil)

SPOTTED at a Romney reunion party at Chaplains in D.C last night hosted by Ryan Williams and Maeve Reston: newly engaged Ashley Parker and Mike Bender, Matt Viser, Josh Dawsey, Garrett Haake, Albert Martinez, Reid Epstein, Lauren Pratapas and John Legittino, Jill Barclay, Jen Webber, Matt Mowers and Cassie Spodak, Rick Gorka, Ben Ginsberg, Annie Starke, Kaitlan Collins, Sara Murray, Hadas Gold, Molly Donlin, Susan Hepworth, Phil Rucker.

SPOTTED at an event yesterday at the Capitol honoring Kay Cole James, the next president of the Heritage Foundation: Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.), Reps. Mark Walker (R-N.C.) and Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), Charles James, Ed Feulner, Linda Claire Leventhal, Angela and Elroy Sailor, Paris Dennard and Leah LeVell, Dr. Christopher Metzler, Deana Bass, DJ Jordan, Tiffany Moore, Aaron Manaigo, Dean Nelson, Blandon David, Earl Matthews, David Byrd, Sean Jackson and CJ Sailor.

TRANSITIONS -- Geoff Wetrosky has been named campaign director at the Human Rights Campaign. HRC also announced four state directors: Allison VanKuiken in Pennsylvania, Shawn Copeland in Ohio, Wendy Strout in Wisconsin, and Briana Escamilla in Nevada, and Ianthe Metzger has been named press secretary for their 2018 efforts. ... Amy Travieso has been named VP of government affairs at the American Hotel & Lodging Association.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD -- Peter Mirijanian, founder of Peter Mirijanian Public Affairs, and Irina Petrossian, an executive at Marriott International, yesterday welcomed Eva Leeza Mirijanian at 7lbs, 14 oz at Sibley Memorial Hospital. Pic http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3f5de867d80ad6c0a51ad133dee84601faa5e6ab886356fd8d96e0dd855f16ff6ed3b28e255525e68866871f1964c53b

- Libby Franklin, associate director of public programs at the Aspen Institute, and Joe Franklin, associate director for policy in the FDA's Office of New Drugs, on Thursday welcomed Celia Jane Franklin, "heretofore to be known as CJ ... weighing 6 pounds 11 ounces. Mom and baby are doing great." Pic http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3f5de867d80ad6c031d8634ed55a219b15945c24222a12dd446596e2e5d199a8baa511a1445a4e5ceb710ba8f270baee

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