Donald Trump’s transition team wants Mitt Romney to publicly apologize for railing against the president-elect during the campaign if he hopes to become the next Secretary of State, Fox News reports.
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“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to visit the White House on Monday,” Axios reports. “If the visit takes place as planned, Netanyahu will be the first foreign leader…
Washington Post: “Although wrongful detentions and deportations of U.S. citizens aren’t unheard-of, recent news reports of at least seven alleged cases have alarmed attorneys, civil rights advocates and immigration scholars…
The Atlantic: “The unusual requests made of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s staff are raising concerns all the way to the White House.” Save to Favorites
“If there was one consistent message from Trump administration economic officials Sunday morning, it was this: We’re not worried about the stock market plunging, and the cavalry isn’t coming to…
Wall Street Journal: “No American president has disrupted so many aspects of the nation’s daily life as President Trump has in less than three months in office. His no-apologies agenda…
U.S. stock futures dropped more than 4% on Sunday evening as the White House remained defiant even after a two-day historic stock market rout that followed President Trump’s rollout of…
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the Trump administration will remain steadfast in its reciprocal tariffs on major U.S. trading partners even in the face of a global stock market sell-off,…
Politico: “Less than two weeks before the start of a landmark antitrust trial against tech giant Meta, the growing relationship between President Donald Trump and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is stoking fears…
“This is the biggest self-inflicted wound we’ve put on our economy in history… Until we have a reversal, I think we’re going to have a real problem.” —Former Treasury Secretary…
Playbook: “There are chiefly two factions among Hill Republicans worried about Trump’s tariffs: those who think they’re bad policy, and those who think they’re bad politics. (There is overlap.)” “In…
Some people “inside the administration and close to President Trump appeared confused, and surprised, about Elon Musk’s decision to publicly go after Peter Navarro (and by extension, indicate his displeasure…
For the next five or six days, updates on the site may be a bit more sporadic than usual. I’ve managed to keep things running smoothly from places as far-flung…
James Surowiecki: “Investors discounted everything Trump has ever said about trade and tariffs. We’re all going to pay for that mistake.” Save to Favorites
John Gruber: “There is no mechanism in the law for the president to issue any such extension. What he’s saying is what he said the last time: he’s instructing Attorney…
“The Republican Party embarked this week on a haphazard experiment in economic policymaking, wagering that the United States can weather a monumental tax increase in the form of broad tariffs…
David Frum: “President Donald Trump’s high-tariff regime will impose higher prices and lower growth on Americans. It will have another effect that nobody in the administration seems to have considered…
“If there’s a mirror image opposite to Donald Trump’s second-term blitz, it’s Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose first 100 days in office is the model for presidents who want to get…
Jonathan Chait: “Once you’ve said you might negotiate, nobody is going to believe you when you change your mind and say you’ll never negotiate.” Save to Favorites
“A trio of election results this week have Republicans confronting a new reality: not only are they facing political headwinds as the party in power but simultaneously grappling with a…
Only three days after President Trump announced sweeping tariffs, including a 20 percent tariff on goods from the European Union, Elon Musk said that he hoped that Europe and the…
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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