“The Federal Reserve appears likely to raise its key interest rate next week, with minutes from the central bank’s most recent meeting showing some officials wanted to raise rates last month,” CBS News reports.
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“Speaker Mike Johnson has ruled out some of the biggest potential cuts to Medicaid for Republicans’ party-line package to enact President Donald Trump’s agenda,” Politico reports. “The House has targeted…
“Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday night handed the Trump administration a victory for now in saying that the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department did not…
“The Food and Drug Administration unexpectedly canceled an annual meeting of its advisers to update next season’s influenza vaccines, potentially upending the process to start manufacturing next winter’s flu shots,”…
“The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court Wednesday night to lift a judge’s order requiring the federal government to pay nearly $2 billion in unpaid invoices from foreign-aid contractors in…
“Most of the Social Security Administration’s regional commissioners have decided to retire at the end of this week, following mysterious meetings with agency leaders about plans to slash its workforce,”…
“The Department of Veterans Affairs has temporarily suspended billions of dollars in planned contract cuts following concerns that the move would hurt critical veterans’ health services,“ the AP reports. “The…
“The Trump administration says it is eliminating more than 90% of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in overall U.S. assistance around the world,”…
“President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday empowering DOGE to scrutinize how federal agencies spend money, the latest expansion of Elon Musk’s cost cutting powers,” Axios reports. Save to…
“The Senate has confirmed Jamieson Greer, a veteran of President Donald Trump’s first-term economic battles with China, Mexico and Canada, to be America’s top trade negotiator,” the AP reports. “As…
“The Trump administration on Wednesday revoked a Biden-era fair housing proposed rule requiring localities to track and address patterns of segregation in their communities in order to receive federal funds,”…
“The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared to support the idea of making it easier for men and people who are White or straight to sue for job discrimination, based on…
“Donald Trump’s assault on the U.S. federal government and the world’s interlinked manufacturing system have together reached an economic tipping point,” the Telegraph reports. Said economist Jesse Rothstein: “It seems…
“President Trump told his cabinet on Wednesday that President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was expected to come to Washington to sign a framework agreement enabling the United States to share…
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“President Trump, in a continued effort to replace Pentagon officials, hinted his administration would fire the military leaders involved in the American withdrawal from Afghanistan,” Politico reports. Said Trump: “They’re…
President Trump claimed the GOP budget resolution won’t cut Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security, ABC News reports. Said Trump: “I mean, I have said it so many times. You shouldn’t…
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) will not run for Senate, and instead is considering running for re-election to a third term, the Minnesota Star Tribune reports. He also won’t endorse…
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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.
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