“The Federal Reserve agreed to cut interest rates by a quarter-point Wednesday but signaled greater doubt over how much and how fast it would reduce them going forward,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Running to about 1,000 pages, the U.S. tax package known as the “big beautiful bill” covers a bewildering array of topics. Yet one tweak that ought to have been included…
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President Trump “was spotted wearing reading glasses in his motorcade over the weekend, a rare sighting of the president who reportedly avoids using them in public,” Newsweek reports. Save to…
“Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told President Trump to start looking for his replacement in the upper chamber prior to the president’s missive saying that he would start interviewing candidates to…
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“The Supreme Court will hear a significant campaign finance case next term that will examine whether it violates the Constitution to restrict the amount of money that political parties can…
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“Republican party leaders are rushing to overcome lingering internal fights over President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending package as Democrats launch attacks to exploit the divisions,” Bloomberg reports. “Senate…
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The Washington Post’s most-read article this morning details what’s in the Senate version of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” David Axelrod notes that Republicans are “racing to ram this bill…
“U.S. stocks have strongly rebounded after a rough start to the year, even as the outlook for the world’s largest economy and its interest rates remains as uncertain as ever,”…
Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) is inching closer to launching a Senate campaign as Republicans scramble to find a consensus candidate who can defeat Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Punchbowl News reports….
“The Trump administration informed Harvard University that its investigation found that it violated federal civil-rights law over its treatment of Jewish and Israeli students, putting the federal funding of the…
“These inner-city rats, they live off the federal government. And that’s one reason we’re $37 trillion in debt. And it’s time we find these rats and we send them back…
“Democratic groups are launching a major organizing push Monday to attack Republicans’ signature bill this summer and prepare for the coming elections, an effort that will focus on voter registration…
“Senate Republicans said they expected to begin voting on amendments to the domestic policy bill at 9 a.m. Monday, after taking a break likely sometime after midnight, rather than working…
“The Trump White House is moving at a far faster clip in 2025 to remake the federal government and American life, in large part because Stephen Miller has put the…
“The Trump administration has built a searchable national citizenship data system,” NPR reports. “The tool is designed to be used by state and local election officials to ensure only citizens…
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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