“The Justice Department on Wednesday secured its 50th guilty plea in the January 6 insurrection, a key milestone as it nears its 600th arrest in the massive investigation,” CNN reports.
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Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball: “History suggested Democrats would be favored to flip the House in 2026 as soon as Donald Trump clinched the presidency in 2024.” “Little that’s happened over…
“President Donald Trump is targeting two former first-term appointees over their criticism of his actions, stripping their security clearances and opening federal probes of their tenures,” Politico reports. “The directives…
JPMorgan says President Trump’s pause of tariffs on most countries makes “the prospect of a recession is a closer call. However, we still think a contraction in real activity later…
“What a day, but more great days coming!!!” — Donald Trump, on Truth Social at 12.45 a.m. this morning. Save to Favorites
Felix Salmon: “We’ve never lived in a world of anything remotely close to 125 percent tariffs on one of our largest trading partners which means the effects of such things…
Playbook: “America wakes up to a trade war this morning — just not the one we’d been promised. Trump’s bond-market-induced case of the yips may have won tariff reprieves for…
“President Trump’s epic tariff retreat shows there is no grand strategy for revolutionizing global trade, and that he’s governing — as he always has — through gut instinct,” Axios reports….
“President Trump began his Wednesday with some advice for those rattled by his steep tariffs,” the New York Times reports. Said Trump, on social media: “BE COOL. THIS IS A…
Punchbowl News: “Just after 8 p.m. last night, the check came due for Speaker Mike Johnson and President Donald Trump.” “Johnson and House GOP leaders delayed a vote on a…
“Sen. Ted Cruz stuck out his neck to critique Donald Trump’s actions on tariffs, warning they could have resulted in a political ‘bloodbath’ for the party had the president not…
Wall Street Journal: “The stock-market meltdown that accompanied President Trump’s intensifying trade war in recent weeks was unsettling enough. The fall in the dollar and rise in bond yields that…
“By pausing global tariffs against dozens of countries and raising them on China, President Trump has set up a high-stakes showdown in hopes he can pressure Beijing into a face-saving…
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confronting his first disease outbreak as Health and Human Services secretary. His response to the spread of measles in and beyond Texas has managed to…
“Russia and the U.S. carried out a prisoner swap early Thursday in Abu Dhabi in a sign of continuing confidence building, as the two sides pursue a deal to end…
Ben Thompson: “The problem with these tariffs is that their scale and indiscriminate nature will have the effect of destroying demand and destroying the capability to develop alternative supply. I…
“Newsmax published defamatory and false statements accusing Dominion Voting Systems of rigging the 2020 election, a Delaware judge ruled Wednesday, though a jury must still decide whether the conservative news…
Time: “Senator Adam Schiff on Wednesday called on Congress to investigate whether President Donald Trump engaged in insider trading or market manipulation when he abruptly paused a sweeping set of…
Wall Street Journal: “Bessent was flooded with worried calls from Wall Street over the weekend and felt strongly he had to persuade Trump that a pause was needed. It wouldn’t…
“A group of House Democrats is launching a concerted campaign to force Elon Musk out of the Trump administration by May 30,” Axios reports. “The effort is hinged on a…
“Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday was forced to delay a vote on the Republican budget blueprint to unlock President Trump’s domestic agenda, after conservatives balked at a plan that they…
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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