The documentary video footage subpoenaed by the January 6 Committee includes “11 hours of footage of interviews with members of the Trump family,” CBS News reports.
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“The Trump administration has embarked on a high-speed effort to negotiate ad hoc deals with more than 70 countries hoping to escape higher tariffs, with any agreements likely to fall…
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“The Supreme Court told the Trump administration to seek the return of a migrant mistakenly sent to a Salvadoran prison, rebuffing government claims that it need do nothing to remedy…
“A tariff reprieve from President Donald Trump sent global markets soaring on Wednesday, with the White House saying it’s been in touch with dozens of countries about striking deals, lining…
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) is running for governor of Colorado next year, NBC News reports. “Bennet is expected to announce his campaign as soon as Friday and will look to…
“Speaker Mike Johnson told Republican holdouts on the party’s crucial budget plan in a private meeting Wednesday night that they could oust him from the speakership if he doesn’t follow…
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The former first lady said on a podcast that people “couldn’t even fathom that I was making a choice for myself, that they had to assume that my husband and…
Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said President Trump’s shifting tariff policy has increased the odds the U.S. will enter into a recession, the Wall Street Journal reports. “Yellen said…
President Trump is declining to rule out the possibility of extending the 90-day pause he placed on his “reciprocal” tariffs yesterday, CNBC reports. Save to Favorites
“China is reaching out to other nations as the U.S. layers on more tariffs in what appears to be an attempt to form a united front to compel Washington to…
“U.S. stocks tumbled about 4 percent in early afternoon trading on Thursday as investors assessed the worsening trade war with China, and President Trump clarified that he had raised tariffs…
“There is now sand — a lot of it — in the gears of global commerce, and it won’t be going away in the foreseeable future,” Axios reports. “President Trump…
“The Trump administration is planning to pursue a legal arrangement that would put Columbia University into a consent decree, an extraordinary step that could significantly escalate the pressure on the…
“Speaker Mike Johnson muscled a revised budget blueprint needed to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda through the House on Thursday, beating back a conservative rebellion that had threatened to sink…
“Chinese officials acknowledged in a secret December meeting that Beijing was behind a widespread series of alarming cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure, underscoring how hostilities between the two superpowers are continuing…
“You have been watching the greatest economic master strategy from an American president in history.” — Trump adviser Stephen Miller, on X. 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.
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