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“Trump officials fending off a legal challenge over the president’s planned ballroom argue the project is a matter of national security, in court filings that provide the most detailed picture…
“An infuriated Rep. Mike Lawler left a closed-door House Republican meeting Tuesday and sounded off on GOP leaders who are planning to allow key Obamacare subsidies to expire in two…
“The One Big Beautiful Bill Republicans passed in July is in danger of becoming the only big bill the GOP enacts in its stint in power,” Bloomberg Government reports. “Ever…
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White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles told Vanity Fair that Elon Musk was an “avowed” ketamine user, Bloomberg reports. She also labeled Vice President JD Vance a “conspiracy theorist,”…
Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer announced that a “strike team” is being sent to Minnesota to investigate reports of rampant fraud within several of the state’s benefits programs, Fox News…
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“Elon Musk has begun funding the GOP’s House and Senate campaigns for the 2026 midterms — an indication his relationship with President Trump has thawed since their messy breakup earlier…
“Former sports broadcaster turned conservative media figure Michele Tafoya is considering a run for Senate in Minnesota after meeting with officials from the National Republican Senatorial Committee last week in…
John Dickerson: “When the country confronts something as horrible as the Reiners’ killing, it is destabilizing. When the victim is someone we feel we knew or whose work helped us…
“President Trump’s chief of staff said she tried to get him to end his ‘score settling’ against political enemies after 90 days in office, but acknowledged that the administration’s still…
“President Donald Trump has signed more executive orders in less than a year of his presidency than he did in his entire first term — repeatedly bypassing Congress and forcing…
New York Times: “Much of the last quarter-century of Epstein’s life has been carefully examined — including how, in the 1990s and early 2000s, he amassed hundreds of millions of…
Australia’s prime minister said the gunmen behind the mass shooting at a Jewish celebration in Sydney on Sunday were motivated by “Islamic State ideology,” the New York Times reports. Save…
Wall Street Journal: “Polls show Mace’s sharp-elbowed style appeals to a slice of Palmetto State voters who like to see their representative willing to fight. But in a crowded field…
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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