“House Republicans on Friday advanced a month-long plan to fund the government — but it’s not yet clear if they can pass the bill itself with mere hours remaining before a shutdown starts at midnight on Saturday,” Politico reports.
“Republicans paired the funding stopgap, known as a continuing resolution, with steep spending cuts and a GOP border bill. They prevailed, 218-210, with every Republican present voting yes.”
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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.
