“After six weeks in office, President Trump has not disclosed the names of the donors who paid for his transition planning, despite a public pledge to do so,” the New York Times reports.
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National Review: “Trump intends to illustrate that he has amassed uncheckable power. That is, having extirpated what made the Republican Party conservative and constitutionalist, and with Congress thus no obstacle…
“We live in a moment when our freedoms are once again under attack from the highest office in the land. We see things that would be familiar to our revolutionary…
New York Times: “Mr. Patel seems to relish his new status as director, cutting a highly visible path while running the most important law enforcement agency in the nation. His…
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) on Sunday accused President Trump of sending the U.S. into a constitutional crisis, saying members of the Trump administration “are very much flouting the courts…
President Trump on Truth Social: “Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally…
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) told NBC News he disagreed with President Trump’s idea to deport U.S. citizens to foreign prisons, saying it should not be “considered appropriate or moral.” Save…
“A draft White House executive order proposes a drastic restructuring of the State Department, including eliminating almost all of its Africa operations and shutting down embassies and consulates across the…
New York Times: “Businesses that rely on imported products expected duties, which President Trump had promised. Just not this high, this universal or this sudden, with almost no time to…
“Liberal Leader Mark Carney released his election platform on Saturday, touting an emphasis on new military spending and bolstering Canada against Donald Trump’s expansionist vision,” Politico reports. Said Carney: “In…
“A national day of action against President Donald Trump and his administration has united an outpouring of protesters across the country who are rallying in defiance of what they describe…
“If JB Pritzker runs for the Democratic presidential nomination, he will be betting his party’s best prospect is a political punch-throwing heavyset billionaire who inherited massive wealth. While that sounds…
“Vice President JD Vance met with Pope Francis on Easter Sunday, the Vatican confirmed, a remarkable encounter between the ailing head of the global Catholic church and a high-profile convert…
Dan Balz: “From the day he came down the escalator to announce his candidacy for the White House, President Donald Trump has had one go-to issue in his political playbook:…
“In his first eight months in the White House in 2017, Donald Trump held nine rallies — the kind of campaign-style events that had come to define his political brand,…
Jonathan Cohn: “The likelihood of Donald Trump and his allies in Congress taking Medicaid away from millions of low-income Americans—and, in the process, rolling back a huge piece of the…
“Arizona’s Democratic Party is in a meltdown,” Politico reports. “Bitter infighting among the state’s top Democrats, apparently building for weeks, spilled into public view on Saturday when the state party…
“Pope Francis skipped the Vatican’s official meeting with Vice President J.D. Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion,” the Daily Beast reports….
Peter Baker: “In the unlikely yet profound showdown between the president and the migrant that has captured international attention, the courts have uniformly determined that one of them recently violated…
“President Donald Trump is registering the worst economic approval numbers of his presidential career amid broad discontent over his handling of tariffs, inflation and government spending,” according to the latest…
“There is a complete meltdown in the building, and this is really reflecting on the secretary’s leadership. Pete Hegseth has surrounded himself with some people who don’t have his interests…
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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