Three college presidents — from Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT — will testify in Congress on Tuesday about how they have handled antisemitic incidents on their campuses since the Oct. 7 terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel, CBS News reports.
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“House Republicans suddenly find themselves scrambling to mollify Elon Musk, who has been venting his rage at them for voting for a Trump-backed domestic policy bill he calls a ‘disgusting…
“Former President Biden pushed back on Wednesday night on President Trump’s announcement of an investigation into his use of an autopen to sign orders that raised questions about his mental…
Status: “Is Meghan McCain that desperate for some extra cash? On Wednesday, she announced a partnership with a fringe ‘detox’ product marketed to people who ‘regret taking’ the Covid vaccine….
Wall Street Journal: “A senior White House official said Trump wasn’t happy about Musk’s decision to lambaste his signature legislation, describing the president as confused as to why the Tesla…
“President Donald Trump has revoked Harvard University’s permission to host incoming international students, the latest escalation in an ongoing battle between the White House and the country’s oldest university,” USA…
“Key Senate Republicans strategized with President Trump on how to cut spending deeper than the House-passed budget bill and pressed him to make his proposed business tax cuts permanent,” Axios…
“President Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into whether aides to former President Joe Biden concealed alleged declines in his mental acuity, including by the use of an automatic pen…
“President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on Wednesday restricting the entry of travelers to the United States from more than a dozen countries, resurrecting and expanding sweeping restrictions from his…
White House budget chief Russ Vought tempered President Donald Trump’s call for the elimination of the debt limit earlier Wednesday, saying the president wants to keep the debt limit increase…
“President Donald Trump is frustrated with Elon Musk for slamming the administration’s chief legislative priority, but isn’t taking it personally — a distinction that’s helped keep a lid on the…
“Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s new attempt to distance herself from the Democratic Party while diagnosing its problems is landing with a thud,” NOTUS reports. “A vague synopsis…
“A top coronavirus vaccine adviser at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has resigned, citing concerns that she could no longer help vulnerable people after federal health officials rescinded…
“The U.S. economy slowed to a crawl in May, with consumers pulling back on spending and businesses delaying hiring, according to the Federal Reserve‘s Beige Book survey released Wednesday,” MarketWatch…
“The Trump administration took aim at Columbia University’s accreditation, a significant escalation in the government’s battle with the Ivy League school,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The Department of Education…
Elon Musk called on Republicans to kill President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” and demanded that a new bill be drafted. He later posted an image from the Quentin Tarantino movie…
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said that Senate Republicans are eager to tweak the state-and-local-tax deduction language in the House’s reconciliation bill, Punchbowl News reports. That brought dramatic reaction…
“Speaker Mike Johnson spent several minutes during a closed-door House Republican Conference meeting on Wednesday morning pushing back on Musk and trying to reassure Republicans after Musk signaled that he…
New York Times: “In the bitter war over the nation’s fiscal future, President Trump and his Republican allies have united around a new foe: the economists and budget experts who…
“Some economists are beginning to question the accuracy of recent U.S. inflation data after the federal government said staffing shortages hampered its ability to conduct a massive monthly survey,” 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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