“Newly released documents reveal that Donald Trump’s businesses charged his Department of Defense $976,000 during the first three years of his presidency, an amount that appears far greater than previously reported,” Forbes reports.
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Hunter Biden’s expletive-laced interview “caused a feeding frenzy on Fox News, where the network’s primetime hosts were thrilled to change the subject away from President Trump’s Epstein trainwreck,” Status reports….
Puck: “Inside the Epstein anxiety on Capitol Hill, where Republicans can’t begin their recess quickly enough as the fracas continues to intensify—and Trump keeps making it worse…” “Democrats, meanwhile, have…
“The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday,” CNN…
NBC Sports: “Twice on Sunday, President Donald Trump took to his social-media account on his social-media platform to insist that two professional sports teams restore Native American-based names they’d previously…
Speaker Mike Johnson marked the one-year anniversary of former President Joe Biden dropping out of the 2024 presidential campaign on Monday by sharing a 14 minute-long video of Democrats praising…
“House Republicans will scrap several floor votes this week as internal party drama over the release of Jeffrey Epstein files derailed the work of the Rules Committee,” Politico reports. “The…
“Never have the words ‘no comment’ been more appropriate.” — David Axelrod, quoted by the New York Times, when asked about Hunter Biden’s tirade against him. Save to Favorites
“In declaring war on The Wall Street Journal over its coverage of his yearslong friendship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, President Trump tapped his supporters’ distrust of his…
James Carville: “Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary wasn’t an isolated event. It represents an undeniable fissure in our political soul. We are divided along generational…
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that President Trump was unhappy with Israel’s airstrikes in Syria last week and called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “rectify” the situation, Axios…
“Venezuela’s attorney general, Tarek Saab, said on Monday that his office would investigate El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, and two other officials for the alleged abuse of Venezuelans detained in…
“The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he…
“Dogged for weeks over his administration’s refusal to release the Epstein files, President Trump spent the weekend posting on social media about, well, anything else,” the New York Times reports….
“I know exactly what happened in that debate. He’s 81 years old. He’s tired as shit. They give him Ambien to be able to sleep, and he gets up on…
“Democrats will force another vote on releasing Jeffrey Epstein-related documents during a Rules Committee meeting Monday afternoon, pressing Republicans yet again on the matter before lawmakers leave this week for…
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Politico she is removing the Wall Street Journal from the pool of reporters covering the president’s weekend trip to Scotland. The move follows…
Hunter Biden went off on actor George Clooney and other high-profile Democrats in an expletive-filled response to their calls for his father, former President Biden, to drop out of the…
“Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeeper released its final prediction Monday for how President Donald Trump’s signature legislative achievement will grow the national debt and affect U.S. households,” Politico reports. “Over the next…
As they gear up for special elections next fall, appointed Sens. Jon Husted (R-OH) and Ashley Moody (R-FL) are facing easier paths than some had initially expected, NBC News reports….
New York Times: “For decades, the prices Medicare pays doctors for different medical services have been largely decided not by Medicare itself, but by a powerful industry group, the American…
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.
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