“The U.S. House Ethics Committee on Monday closed its investigations into allegations that Reps. Ronny Jackson and Wesley Hunt misused campaign funds, clearing the Texas Republicans of wrongdoing,” the Dallas Morning News reports.
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Politico: “It’s getting late early for John Cornyn. Yet another poll shows the four-term incumbent lagging well behind his hard-right challenger, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, in next year’s primary.”…
“The Senate parliamentarian ruled on Wednesday to reject Republican language in the Senate megabill that would prohibit federal subsidies under the Affordable Care Act from going to qualified health plans…
“A mediator has proposed that President Trump and Paramount Global settle his lawsuit over a CBS News “60 Minutes” interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris for $20 million,” the…
“The Trump Organization scrapped a reference that its recently revealed smartphone will be made in the U.S., amid doubts that such a device can be manufactured on American shores at…
Iran admitted its nuclear installations were “badly damaged” by U.S. airstrikes, the first such comments by Tehran as debate grows over how much the bombardment managed to dent the Islamic…
“Two weeks after China promised the U.S. it would ease the exports of rare-earth magnets, Chinese authorities are dragging out approval of Western companies’ requests for the critical components, a…
Washington Post: “Amid a political battle over what the intelligence shows, the White House is expected to send four of its top national security officials to brief lawmakers: Defense Secretary…
“From the start of his second term, President Trump has bet that he can appeal to low-income voters while slashing safety net programs on which many of those voters depend,”…
New York Times: “Zohran Mamdani’s success in the city with the largest Jewish population in the world offered the starkest evidence yet that outspoken opposition to Israel and its government…
In his comments since the Iran-Israel conflict ended in a ceasefire, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei congratulated “the great nation of Iran” for its “victory over the fake Zionist regime,”CNN…
Washington, D.D. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) told reporters that she is running for reelection yesterday — only for her office to again walk back her comment, Politico reports. Said…
Senate Republicans are working to hammer out a version of the tax bill that can pass the House without returning to the negotiating table, NBC News reports. “That means hashing…
Politico: “In one important way, Cuomo’s defeat in Tuesday’s mayoral primary was not an only-in-New York story. For all the local flavors and personal peculiarities of the former governor’s downfall,…
“Now that he’s all but won the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani enters a general election against incumbent Eric Adams, who is eager to keep his…
Playbook: “It’s rare to see the president this rattled by a negative story about his administration. Obviously Trump goes after the media all the time, but it mostly feels performative…
“Senate Republicans are considering delaying a politically explosive Medicaid cut as they look for ways to win over GOP moderate holdouts threatening the massive reconciliation bill,” Punchbowl News reports. “The…
New York Times: “If you scratch below the surface… there are signs that some Republicans are a little spooked, too. They have, after all, just watched a charismatic New Yorker…
“Andrew Cuomo will drop out of the mayor’s race after his humiliating defeat against socialist Zohran Mamdani — as the ex-governor’s donors and backers desert him and weigh whether to…
“President Trump called on Wednesday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial to be ‘cancelled immediately’ or for giving him a pardon,” Axios reports. “Trump’s comments in a post…
“President Trump is going to extraordinary lengths to defend his claim that U.S. airstrikes ‘obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear program, determined to cement the operation as a defining victory of his presidency,”…
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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