Playbook: “The one positive element our sources took out of yesterday’s meeting at the White House is that this government funding stalemate needs to get much worse before it gets solved, and that is what began happening yesterday.”
“By the end of the day, this will be the second-longest government shutdown in U.S. history. If it lasts to Saturday, Trump’s Washington will be the owner of the longest government shutdown ever.”
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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.