“The White House on Monday immediately played up Brett Kavanaugh’s pro-business, anti-regulation record and is asking industry trade groups for help pushing his confirmation through the Senate… In the one-page document, which was obtained by Politico, the White House wrote that Kavanaugh has overruled federal regulators 75 times on cases involving clean air, consumer protections, net neutrality and other issues.”
Save to FavoritesA new KFF Health poll finds that more than 70% of Americans are worried about the impact of Medicaid cuts in the bill leading to more people uninsured and hurting…
ProPublica: “As the Trump administration prepared to cancel contracts at the Department of Veteran Affairs this year, officials turned to a software engineer with no health care or government experience…
“Damian Williams, the former top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, is leaving the law firm Paul Weiss to join Jenner & Block, defecting from a firm that struck a deal with…
USA Today: “A White House official confirmed on background June 6 that Trump no longer wants the Tesla Model S he bought in March in a show of support for…
“I’m not going to speak for either of them. I was with the president in the Oval Office yesterday afternoon as some of this unfolded, and I can just say…
A new YouGov poll of Republicans finds that 71% said they would side with President Trump over Elon Musk, while 12% said they would side with neither. For what it’s…
“Elon Musk’s threat Thursday to decommission SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft would have left NASA reliant on Russian capsules to get its astronauts into space,” Axios reports. “Musk’s rift with President Trump…
Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) posted — then quickly deleted — that a Sikh should have “never been allowed” to lead the House of Representatives’ daily prayer on Friday after initially…
“The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding for California, an effort which could begin as soon as Friday,” CNN reports. “Agencies are being told…
Amy Walter: “As legacy media’s influence continues to wane and the information space gets more diffused, it’s becoming harder to gauge the impact of news events on an upcoming election…
Donald Trump is famously vindictive — but not always consistent. While he often seeks revenge on perceived enemies, he also has a remarkable capacity to forgive those who once humiliated…
“The Trump administration is trying to get Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to significantly weaken his Russia-sanctions bill while the White House seeks to patch up its relationship with Moscow instead…
President Trump urged Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to slash interest rates by a full percentage point, despite a better-than-expected result from the Labor Department’s latest jobs report, CNBC reports….
James Fishback, the chief architect behind the proposal to send “DOGE checks,” told Politico he’s stepping away from the movement after Elon Musk lashed out at President Trump. Said Fishback:…
“While Ukraine just pulled off an audacious and effective attack on Russia’s bomber fleet, Vladimir Putin is slow-walking Donald Trump’s effort to nudge the warring countries toward peace talks and…
Washington Post: “Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many federal employees dismissed under DOGE’s staff-slashing initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key…
Fox News’ Mark Levin slammed his former colleague Tucker Carlson as a “loathsome ass who is increasingly unhinged and pathetic,” Mediaite reports. Levin’s declaration of war came after Carlson claimed…
President Trump told CNN he is “not even thinking about” billionaire Elon Musk and won’t be speaking to him in the near future. Said Trump: “I’m not even thinking about…
The Guardian: 10 ways Donald Trump and Elon Musk can further hurt each other if they fail to broker a peace deal. Save to Favorites
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.