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Wired: “Federal records show that over the past several months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security have carried out a secret campaign to expand ICE’s physical…
“The first four months of fiscal year 2026 got off to an expensive start for the U.S.,” Fortune reports. “The CBO released a report yesterday detailing that, for the first…
A new GBAO poll found 58% of Americans have negative views of ICE, and that assessment is even more negative — 64% — among independent voters. Fifty-two percent support securing…
Playbook: “Trump is set to meet — for the seventh time — with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House at 11 a.m. But this visit in particular comes…
“President Donald Trump is privately musing about exiting the North American trade pact, injecting further uncertainty about the deal’s future into pivotal renegotiations involving the US, Canada and Mexico,” Bloomberg…
“The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport,” the AP reports. Save…
“The former top deputy to Jack Smith, the special prosecutor who twice indicted Donald Trump, is expected to announce on Wednesday that he is running for Congress in Virginia, pitching…
“If these fuckers think that they’re going to intimidate us and threaten and bully me into silence, and they’re going to go after political opponents and get us to back…
Punchbowl News: “The House is now going to have open season on President Donald Trump’s tariffs.” “Trump suffered a serious political blow Tuesday night when the House voted down a…
“Support for President Trump’s immigration agenda is in free fall in early 2026 after federal immigration agents shot and killed two Americans last month,” according to the new NBC News…
A new Emerson College survey of Minnesota likely voters finds Democratic candidates for office leading Republican counterparts for governor, U.S. Senate, and on a generic state legislature ballot. In the…
“Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn abruptly canceled a Tuesday fundraiser that was set to be co-hosted by a Democratic operative who was mentioned in the recently released Jeffrey Epstein files…
The House rejected a procedural motion that would’ve blocked lawmakers from bringing up resolutions disapproving of President Trump’s tariff regime, a rebuke of the White House, Punchbowl News reports. The…
“Federal prosecutors in Washington sought and failed to secure an indictment against six Democratic lawmakers who posted a video this fall that enraged President Trump by reminding active-duty members of…
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) trashed the economy under her former boss President Trump and warned Republicans some big losses could be coming in the midterms, Mediaite reports….
“A large Pride flag was quietly removed from the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan after a directive from the federal government, the latest step in the Trump administration’s nationwide assault…
Wall Street Journal: “Overhauling the Kennedy Center has become a fixation for Trump—and no detail is too small for the real-estate-developer-turned-president.” “Despite Trump’s focus on the Kennedy Center, and in…
“The FDA has refused to accept an application from Moderna to review its first mRNA seasonal flu vaccine, in another setback for the technology that’s been a target of some…
Republicans are calling on the FCC “to investigate Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance, suggesting the content and lyrics of the Puerto Rican star’s show were ‘illegal,’” Axios reports. “Many…
President Trump ruled out pushing another one-party reconciliation package through Congress, Politico reports. Said Trump: “In theory we’ve gotten everything passed that we need. Now we just need to manage…
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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