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Donald Trump is unlikely to make as big of an imprint on the federal judiciary as he did in his first term, the Washington Post reports. If the Senate confirms…
“President-elect Trump confirmed Monday that he is planning to declare a national emergency and use the U.S. military to carry out mass deportations,” Axios reports. “Trump made his promise to…
“After defeating Donald Trump four years ago, President Biden declared at his first summit ‘America is back.’ Now as he attends a final pair of gatherings with world leaders in…
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski traveled to Mar-a-Lago to meet in person with Donald Trump for the first time in years, CNN reports. Said Mika: “Joe and I realized…
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Joshua Green: “This speaks to the central tension of Trump’s second presidency: whether he can satisfy his cohort of billionaire backers and Wall Street allies while also delivering for the…
Doyle McManus: “At first glance, President-elect Donald Trump’s most controversial Cabinet nominees — Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — are an odd list of…
“President-elect Donald Trump is dead serious about making him attorney general. Speaker Mike Johnson is pledging to bury a critical House Ethics Committee report into his alleged personal misconduct. But…
“While the early focus on a Trump administration Food and Drug Administration has been on vaccine policy, one of its first moves could be overhauling the federal rules that have…
Politico: “Trump’s team is already thinking about how to craft executive actions aimed to withstand the legal challenges from immigrants’ rights groups.” “But legal fights aren’t the only long-term challenge…
“Elon Musk has quickly become an influential figure in President-elect Trump’s inner circle, but there are signs of tension between Musk and a longtime Trump adviser over Cabinet appointments to…
“Donald Trump is refusing to back down over his Cabinet picks in the first clash in an epic battle he will wage against Washington when he takes office next year,”…
“President Biden will begin what is likely to be his last summit with global leaders as commander in chief on Monday, pushing for even stronger support of Ukraine despite the…
New York Times: “The new inroads Mr. Trump made this year with working-class voters of color, particularly Latino ones, have alarmed Democrats. At the same time, the party’s Trump-era Achilles’…
“President Biden hadn’t even been inaugurated when he and his senior advisers made a monumental gamble in January 2021 that would reverberate through his presidency. Fresh on the heels of…
Politico: “It’s a role reversal that, while heady for Republicans now, will quickly come with all the liabilities associated with incumbency. Republicans are betting they’re about to see further economic…
“President-elect Donald Trump has told advisers he is standing by his nominee for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, after the transition team was jolted by an allegation he had sexually assaulted…
“President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday chose Brendan Carr to be chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, naming a veteran Republican regulator who has publicly agreed with the incoming administration’s promises…
“President-elect Donald Trump is eyeing a new candidate for Treasury Secretary amid internal debate over who should have the role: the former Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh,” the New York…
A January 6 defendant’s lawyer says he’s spoken with “a high member of the future Trump Administration” and claims a pardon is almost certain, Politico reports. Save to Favorites
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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