President Donald Trump has fired Carla Hayden, the longtime head of the Library of Congress, in a move that Democratic lawmakers panned as “callous” and “ignorant,” Roll Call reports.
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As the Senate debates the GOP tax and spending bill titled One Big Beautiful Bill Act and President Donald Trump pushes for a July 4 deadline to sign it, a…
“Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), the chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, said there’s no chance that Congress will be able to send President Donald Trump a reconciliation bill by July…
Washington Post: “Since taking office in January, Trump has upended the federal pardoning process, increasing the White House’s authority over a task that until now was largely governed by Justice…
G. Elliot Morris: “Yesterday, residents in six legislative districts across Oklahoma, Florida, and Massachusetts voted in special elections for state House and Senate members. Democrats beat expectations in five of…
New York Times: “America’s closest allies are increasingly turning to each other to advance their interests, deepening their ties as the Trump administration challenges them with tariffs and other measures…
“JD Vance and Susie Wiles pushed Elon Musk to repair his relationship with President Trump after the tech billionaire blew up at the president in a dramatic and public falling…
“China is putting a six-month limit on rare-earth export licenses for U.S. automakers and manufacturers, giving Beijing leverage if trade tensions flare up again while adding to uncertainty for American…
Rolling Stone: “It’s been less than a week since the explosive, extremely public breakdown in relations between Donald Trump, the most powerful person on the planet, and Elon Musk, the…
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promised to make decisions rooted in “gold-standard science,” fired an entire committee of vaccine advisers in part because all were appointed by…
“Joe Walsh, the former Tea Party congressman, right-wing radio host and current Never Trumper, is eyeing a possible move to South Carolina. He says he’s considering a run as a…
“The entire membership of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board resigned over what it said was meddling by the Trump administration in the board’s authority to award scholarships,” CNBC reports. Save…
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. envoy Tom Barrack he’s interested in negotiating with the new Syrian government, with the U.S. serving as mediator,” Axios reports. Save to Favorites
Variety: “Does a parade meant to celebrate the nation truly exist if it can’t get on national broadcast TV?” “Mainstream TV-news outlets seem divided over how to cover an extravagant…
“Trump administration officials have concluded that President Donald Trump has the authority to entirely abolish protected areas set aside as national monuments by past presidents, according to a legal opinion released…
“The Trump administration is preparing to begin the transfer of potentially thousands of foreigners who are in the United States illegally to the U.S. military base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba,…
“In the days before President Donald Trump suddenly paused most of the punishing tariffs on foreign countries he had revealed in early April, more than a dozen congressional lawmakers were…
Politico surveyed 50 GOP lawmakers and only seven said they planned to attend President Trump’s military parade in Washington, D.C., this weekend. Earlier for members: Trump’s Military Parade Sends a…
“Secretary of State Marco Rubio is pushing to investigate whether Harvard University violated federal sanctions by collaborating on a health insurance conference in China that may have included officials blacklisted…
“President Trump said Wednesday the U.S. deal with China was done, subject to final approval from himself and Chinese leader Xi Jinping,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Trump said China…
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.
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