“Attendance issues in the Senate could prove pivotal for GOP leaders ahead of a vote on a resolution to overturn President Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs,” Punchbowl News reports.
“Senate Republican leaders were on track for yet another defeat today, with four GOP senators prepared to cross party lines and vote with Democrats to rebuke Trump’s tariff regime for the second time in less than a month.”
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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.