Daily Brief

Daily Brief

On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the unemployment rate held steady at a historically low 3.5% in December. Since February 2017, Trump's first full month in office, the monthly unemployment rate has averaged 3.9%. No prior president has averaged less than 4% over the first 35 months of his presidency.

Legislative Snapshot

Legislative Snapshot

Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani was planning to take out four embassies, including the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, when the decision was made to take him out, President Donald Trump said in an interview recorded Friday. "We will tell you that it was probably going to be the embassy in Baghdad," Trump told Fox News' Laura Ingraham during their interview, which will air in full Friday night at 10 p.m. ET.