Hope Hicks told House investigators that her work for President Trump “had occasionally required her to tell white lies,” the New York Times reports.
“But after extended consultation with her lawyers, she insisted that she had not lied about matters material to the investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible links to Trump associates.”
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“The Argentine peso has fallen below the level it reached before the US Treasury began purchases earlier this month, in a sign that the Trump administration’s financial support is failing…
“More Americans are struggling to make their monthly car-loan payments, a sign that lower-income consumers are under growing financial pressure,” the New York Times reports. “The share of subprime auto…
President Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese “signed a deal supplying the United States with minerals and rare earths from Australia, part of the Trump administration’s effort to seek…
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) paid her son $3,500 from her campaign account for “consulting,” Iowa Starting Line reports. Twenty-two days later, her son, Jonathon Miller-Meeks, made a campaign contribution of…
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said he and fellow Republicans are ready to push GOP leaders to put their bipartisan stock trading ban bill on the floor whenever the House returns…
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) gamely defended President Trump’s social media post showing him dropping human excrement on liberal protesters in comments to reporters, calling it “satire,” Politico reports. Said Johnson:…
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) “says that if her party can’t keep its promise to bring down the cost of living, it will pay the price in next year’s midterm…
The Supreme Court agreed to decide if “habitual drug users” lose their gun rights under the 2nd Amendment, the Los Angeles Times reports. The Trump administration is defending a federal…
“For as in absolute governments the King is Law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.” — Thomas Paine, writing…
Billionaire John Catsimatidis — who is Curtis Sliwa’s boss at WABC Radio — called on Sliwa to drop his New York City mayoral bid in an effort to help consolidate…
“Members of Congress say they’re happy military troops are getting paid during the shutdown, but not necessarily that President Donald Trump is claiming vast power over the federal spending process…
Adam Serwer: “Toward the end of the Biden administration, conservatives, fed up with the supposed imposition of liberal ideas by ‘woke capital,’ tried to create what The Economist described as…
“President Volodymyr Zelensky said Budapest wasn’t the best place for talks to end the war in Ukraine because of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Russia-friendly stance, but he’d still come…
President Trump told Fox News he could claim “unquestioned power” by invoking the Insurrection Act — a sweeping assertion that he could effectively override the courts and Congress. Said Trump:…
“Influential conservative groups with deep pockets are pushing Republicans to demand steep concessions from Democrats in exchange for extending health care subsidies, a move that risks prolonging a US government…
“Don’t forget I can use the Insurrection Act… And that’s unquestioned power.” — Donald Trump, in a Fox News interview.
The Bulwark runs a fascinating essay about life as a GOP operative in the Trump era and the compromises you have to make. This one decided he had enough.
A Political Wire reader took issue with the idea that Donald Trump is behaving like a king. But it took me only a minute to come up with examples that…
Paul Krugman: “Donald Trump has not yet consolidated anything like absolute political power. But parts of our society — the Republican Party and a number of supposedly independent institutions like,…
Foreign Affairs: “After three and a half years of full-scale conflict, the contours of Russia’s political economy reveal the boundaries of what the Kremlin can achieve. To defeat Putin’s grand…
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.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.
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