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CNBC: “Nonfarm payrolls rose by a seasonally adjusted 143,000 for the month, down from an upwardly revised 307,000 in December and below the 169,000 forecast from Dow Jones. The unemployment…
With a potential government shutdown looming next month, Republicans are suddenly realizing they’ll need Democratic votes to keep the lights on—and Democrats know it. Despite being in the minority, Democrats…
Elon Musk said the Department of Government Efficiency will make “rapid safety upgrades” to the air traffic control systems with the Federal Aviation Administration, The Hill reports.Save to Favorites
President Trump has tasked Vice President J.D. Vance and National Security Adviser Michael Waltz with overseeing a potential sale of TikTok, Punchbowl News reports. “The assignment puts Vance and Waltz…
Time: “No single private citizen, certainly not one whose wealth and web of businesses are directly subject to the oversight of federal authorities, has wielded such power over the machinery…
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) has signaled to donors she may run to replace term-limited Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) in 2026, and Knox News has learned Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN)…
Ellen Weintraub, the chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission, posted a short letter signed by President Trump on social media that said she was “hereby removed” from the commission effective…
“I was a moderate Democrat. I think government shutdowns are stupid but… if I’m still in the house, and someone were to say pass an appropriations bill to give the…
“In the first weeks of the new Trump administration, the White House has boasted about the arrests of thousands of undocumented immigrants,” CNN reports. “But behind the scenes, senior officials…
“The new Trump presidency has arrived where it was always destined to land — in the courts,” CNN reports. “The White House suffered a pair of hitches Thursday in its…
New York Times: “For decades, the Republican Party, more than the Democratic Party, presented itself as an advocate of federalism, yielding authority and power to state and local governments.” “But…
“Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is slated to make a trip Friday to Guantanamo Bay, as the Trump administration steps up use of the naval base in seeking to emphasize…
Semafor: “The Social Security Administration is an upcoming focus of the Department of Government Efficiency, a source with knowledge of its work told Semafor, and one person involved in DOGE…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told an official with the United States Agency for International Development that foreign aid was “the least popular thing government spends money on” and had…
“President Donald Trump has placed holds on tens of billions of dollars in congressionally-approved spending for projects across the U.S. that range from Iowa soybean farmers adopting greener practices to…
Playbook: “It might be Friday, but the internal Republican battle for the upper hand on reconciliation is still in full swing. Speaker Mike Johnson had promised House Republicans he and…
A new Emerson College poll in New York City finds Andrew Cuomo leading the Democratic mayoral primary with 33%, followed by Eric Adams at 10%, Scott Stringer at 8% and…
Panama President José Raúl Mulino said on Thursday the U.S. was spreading “lies and falsehoods” after the State Department claimed U.S. government vessels would be able to pass through the…
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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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