A new study finds more than half of the Trump administration’s trade-war aid for farmers went to just one-tenth of the recipients in the program, Bloomberg reports.
Save to FavoritesNBC News Poll: “More registered voters view Israel negatively than positively, a change from a few years ago. The change has been especially pronounced among independents and Democrats, fueling divided…
“The Trump administration’s campaign to remove National Park Service exhibits that ‘inappropriately disparage’ historical figures is bogged down more than nine months after Interior Secretary Doug Burgum set it in…
Politico: “Conversations with nearly a dozen GOP state and county chairs and strategists reveal a party largely eager to move on from relitigating Trump’s election grievances, which they’re worried may…
Washington Post: “Trump started a national battle over maps and power last summer when he pushed Texas and other Republican-run states to redraw their congressional districts, a rare step outside…
“For five years in office, President Trump has operated with intuition, impulse and improvisation,” Axios reports. “The Iran war, now entering Week 3, is the first time Trump’s style has…
New York Times: “A judge has thrown out two of their most high-profile indictments.” “Grand juries have repeatedly refused to charge those they are targeting.” “And now, in the wake…
“Israel Katz, the Israeli defense minister, said on Monday that country’s military had launched a ‘ground maneuver’ in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah, the Iran-backed armed group, effectively expanding a ground…
“President Trump threatened to postpone a long-planned summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as he called on China to send warships to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, casting a…
“American oil executives delivered a bleak message to Trump officials in recent days: The energy crisis the Iran war has unleashed is likely to get worse,” the Wall Street Journal…
Paul Krugman: “There’s a real Baghdad Bob feel to pronouncements from the Trump administration these days. The war is going great! We’ve been totally victorious! Also, other countries — including…
“We’re always there for NATO, we’re helping them with Ukraine… It’ll be interesting to see what country wouldn’t help us with a very small endeavor, which is just keeping the…
“It’s early days, but Trump’s efforts to cajole, bully and threaten allied nations into sending warships to help his mission in the Gulf are already mired in difficulty,” Politico reports….
“President Donald Trump’s demands for a coalition to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz appeared to fall on deaf ears on Monday as allies Japan and Australia said they were…
France is not interested in sending ships to the Strait of Hormuz until hostilities stop and the situation stabilizes first, France24 reports. Save to Favorites
British prime minister Keir Starmer continues to resist the President Trump’s demands to send ships to help the U.S. keep the Strait of Hormuz open, The Independent reports. Save to…
Playbook: “Trump put up more than 1,600 words across multiple posts on Truth Social last night, all of them furious.” “This all followed a tempestuous 20-minute briefing on Air Force…
New York Times: “At a meeting in the Oval Office last week, a frustrated Mr. Trump pressed Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about why…
Punchbowl News: “With war raging in the Middle East, the Department of Homeland Security still shut down and a storm bearing down on the East Coast — again — Congress…
“President Trump is weighing a seizure of Iran’s critical oil depot on Kharg Island — a move that would require U.S. boots on the ground — if tankers remain bottled…
“Really, I’m demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory, because it is their territory … you could make the case that maybe we shouldn’t be there…
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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