A senior House Republican tells CNN not to expect any Republican votes for President Joe Biden’s coronavirus relief bill this week: “Personally I expect zero. No effort to reach out to House Republicanss by the majority or White House. Why would any Republican vote for this?”
If so, that would match the zero House Republican votes for President Barack Obama’s stimulus package during the financial crisis in 2009.
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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.
