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“The incoming Trump administration is planning to ramp up operations to arrest unauthorized immigrants across major U.S. cities next week after President-elect Donald Trump takes office, targeting ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions that…
Former Vice President Mike Pence is planning to attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, the New York Times reports. Save to Favorites
CNN: “The justices and their law clerks greeted Trump with collective apprehension eight years ago. Liberal or conservative, they wondered what to expect next. Today, no mystery exists as to…
New York Times: “Imagery — and Mr. Trump’s mastery of it — played a vital role in powering his return to the White House. In many ways, Mr. Trump was…
“The Democratic Party begins 2025 with several looming questions about its future,” NPR reports. “Among them: how to recover from losing the White House and the Senate, in an election…
New York Times: “Even before he takes the oath of office on Monday, cracks in his freshly expanded coalition have emerged. With their divides, the incoming president and his party…
“When Speaker Mike Johnson summarily fired House Intelligence Chair Mike Turner this week, everyone assumed it was about Donald Trump,” Politico reports. “Actually, it was about power — not the…
“Many Americans who otherwise dislike President-elect Donald Trump share his bleak assessment of the country’s problems and support some of his most contentious prescriptions to fix them,” according to a…
“President-elect Donald Trump is returning to Washington triumphant: His legal cases are behind him, corporate executives are flocking to Mar-a-Lago to meet with him, his inaugural committee has raised record…
TikTok said the app will have to “go dark” in the United States on Sunday barring a last-minute intervention from the Biden administration to halt enforcement of a federal ban,…
“The incoming Trump administration is planning a large-scale immigration raid in Chicago next week, the first move in President-Elect Donald Trump’s promised mass deportation campaign,” the Wall Street Journal reports….
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday the nation will hit its debt ceiling the day after President Trump is inaugurated and that the agency will begin “extraordinary measures” to stave…
Wall Street Journal Poll: “Some 53% want Trump to make significant changes in how government is run once he is inaugurated Monday. But more than 60% oppose one of his…
“President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to shift his inauguration from the West Front of the Capitol to the Rotunda — and much of the event to Capital One Arena downtown —…
New York Times: “The dozens of major donors who are coming to Washington for inauguration weekend include some who paid big money to get seats for the swearing-in on Monday….
Gallup: “Joe Biden averaged 42.2% job approval during his four years as president, the second lowest in Gallup polling history.” “Biden’s average job approval rating for his term is just…
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the nation’s health agencies, formally asked the Food and Drug Administration to revoke the authorization of all Covid vaccines during…
“Paramount Global executives have held internal discussions about settling a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump over a CBS News interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, a sign of larger efforts…
“The Biden administration has distributed at least $26 billion of dollars in financing to clean-energy companies in its final days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office,” Bloomberg reports.Save to Favorites
“U.S. officials said on Thursday that they had made big investments that helped Ukraine start and expand its production of drones as it battled Russia’s larger and better-equipped army,” the…
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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