“President Trump raised $239 million for his inauguration festivities in January, a norm-shattering amount fueled by corporate America’s desire to curry favor with a famously transactional president,” the New York Times reports.

Save to Favorites“President Trump raised $239 million for his inauguration festivities in January, a norm-shattering amount fueled by corporate America’s desire to curry favor with a famously transactional president,” the New York Times reports.

Save to FavoritesCNN: “As millions of Americans braced for a series of brutal storms this winter, the senior official in charge of the federal government’s disaster response had been on the job…
The Pentagon is sending three warships and another 2,500 Marines to the Middle East — the second such deployment in just a week — in what looks less like a…
Wall Street Journal: “The Pentagon is sending three warships and thousands of additional Marines to the Middle East, in the second deployment of Marines to the region in the past…
“President Trump on Friday reversed himself and re-endorsed Rep. Jeff Hurd (R-CO), an unusual move that came a month after he pulled his support from Mr. Hurd over a disagreement…
Politico: “House GOP leaders are punting a reauthorization vote for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that they had hoped to hold next week until mid-April, with a GOP hard-liner revolt…
CNN: “The Trump administration slapped a new multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Harvard University on Friday, alleging that the school is in violation of a civil rights law and has failed to…
“President Trump on Friday argued he’s healthier than the Navy championship football team and got his former White House doctor to agree,” the New York Post reports. Said Trump: “He…
New York Times: “Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent turned presidential special envoy, had learned that his Brazilian ex-girlfriend was in a Miami jail, arrested on charges of fraud at…
“Vice President JD Vance will pay a visit to Hungary before the country’s pivotal April 12 elections,” Bloomberg reports. Save to Favorites
New York Times: “Republicans on Capitol Hill have given President Trump wide latitude to wage war on Iran with no congressional approval or limits.” “They have deferred to him almost…
Bloomberg: “Residents exiting Massachusetts took a net of $4.2 billion in adjusted gross income with them in 2023, one of the largest totals in the country, after a tax on…
President Trump told MSNOW it would take 10 years for Iran to rebuild following the military offensive waged by the U.S. and Israel and asserted that toppling the hardline theocratic…
“I think right now at least just kind of keeping a stiff upper lip. Maybe you take one less trip to Starbucks and so that gas goes a little further.”…
President Trump has managed to construct one of the most contradictory policy moves of his presidency: easing sanctions on Iran to help stabilize global oil markets — even as U.S….
Andrew Egger: “Trump is right to be worried. And he’s right in particular to be completely freaked out by the possibility of more attacks from either side on the region’s…
New York Times: “President Gustavo Petro of Colombia, who has had a volatile relationship with President Trump, is under criminal investigation by at least two U.S. federal prosecutors’ offices.” “The…
New York Times: “A Russian tanker full of oil is moving through the Atlantic Ocean and drawing scrutiny to see if it is heading to Cuba, a potential test of…
Axios: “ModSquad, a group of nearly a dozen moderate Senate Democrats, is endorsing Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democratic primary.” “Why it matters: The Democratic party is fracturing over its…
Wall Street Journal: “Iran projected defiance as the war neared the three-week mark, with the new supreme leader declaring that ‘safety must be taken away’ from the country’s enemies while…
Tom Nichols: “Trump did seem to have an overarching goal at the start of the war: regime change. In a video he released during the first night of the attack,…
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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