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Grace Segers

Grace Segers is a staff writer at The New Republic, where she covers Congress and politics. Previously, she worked as a political reporter for CBS News, where she covered two Supreme Court confirmations, two elections, two impeachment trials, a pandemic, and an insurrection. She also served as a digital reporter for City & State New York. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR.

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September 30, 2021
Grace Segers
Congress Is Finding Creative New Ways to Break Itself
America’s august legislative bodies are a simmering welter of dysfunction, and there is no end in sight.
September 27, 2021
Grace Segers
The Democrats Can Raise the Debt Ceiling on Their Own
The party can avert fiscal catastrophe without the GOP’s help—but it’s a complicated nightmare.
September 24, 2021
Grace Segers
Joe Manchin Might Single-Handedly Upend the Child Tax Credit
The West Virginia senator insists that work requirements be included in the bill, despite all the evidence suggesting they are unnecessary and ineffective.
September 22, 2021
Grace Segers
Can John Yarmuth Save the Biden Agenda?
The House’s budget chief on reconciliation, the debt ceiling, and herding cats: “I’m trying not to play Joe Manchin.”
September 21, 2021
Grace Segers
The Democrats’ High-Stakes Sprint Through a Legislative Minefield
The party will try to fund the government, raise the debt ceiling, and pass an infrastructure deal before the end of the month. No big deal!
September 17, 2021
Grace Segers
Anthony Gonzalez’s Retirement Tightens Trump’s Stranglehold on the GOP
The Ohio representative’s decision to not seek reelection deals a savage blow to Republicans hoping to free their party from the former president’s influence.
September 16, 2021
Daniel Strauss, Grace Segers
The Democrats’ California Lesson: Make Covid the Issue
Gavin Newsom was in trouble until his team decided to make the race about Covid-19. It worked this year in this deep-blue state. Can it work next year in purple ones?
September 15, 2021
Grace Segers
Gymnasts Rip the FBI for Its Failure to Stop Larry Nassar’s Serial Sexual Abuses
Simone Biles joined three fellow athletes in offering harrowing testimony of the abuse they faced at the hands of the convicted U.S. Olympic team doctor.
September 15, 2021
Grace Segers
A Modest New Voting Rights Bill Gives Proponents One Last Shot at the Senate
Democrats scaled back their ambitions to create a measure that Republicans might support. If it fails, they’ll either have to break the filibuster—or give up.
September 14, 2021
Grace Segers
The Expanded Child Tax Credit Was a Godsend to Struggling Families. Will Democrats Save It?
The phenomenally effective and wildly popular program could be the centerpiece of the party’s midterm argument—if only it could agree to keep it.
September 12, 2021
Grace Segers
Sorry, Everyone, but Congress Is Bringing Back Debt Ceiling Foolishness
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes—like economic ruin!
September 8, 2021
Grace Segers
The Texas Abortion Law Could Juice Democratic Turnout in Virginia
Terry McAuliffe may benefit if reproductive rights return to the forefront as a campaign issue in the upcoming gubernatorial elections.
September 3, 2021
Grace Segers
The Filibuster Is Blocking Roe v. Wade From Becoming the Law of the Land
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House would vote on a bill codifying the right to an abortion, but it will likely stall in the Senate.
September 1, 2021
Grace Segers
Washington’s Addiction to Defense Spending Will Outlast Afghanistan
The House Armed Services Committee is marking up the latest NDAA, which will be packed with more than $700 billion in new spending.
August 30, 2021
Grace Segers
How Peter Meijer Changed His Mind on Extending the Afghanistan Withdrawal Deadline
The Republican congressman, who traveled to Afghanistan last week on an unsanctioned trip, believes that staying beyond the August 31 withdrawal deadline would be worse than leaving.
August 25, 2021
Grace Segers
Congressional Colleagues Unimpressed by Duo’s Secret Afghanistan Fact-Finding Trip
Some House members slammed Representatives Seth Moulton and Peter Meijer’s jaunt as “troubling” and a “distraction.”
August 24, 2021
Grace Segers
For Congress, September Will Be the Cruelest Month
Between budget reconciliation, infrastructure, and the debt ceiling, lawmakers have their work cut out for them.
August 24, 2021
Grace Segers
These Companies Say They Support Voting Rights Reform. So Will They Stop Donating to Mitch McConnell Now?
Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and others have called on Congress to pass the John Lewis Act, but for years they’ve pumped money to the man dedicated to blocking the bill.
August 20, 2021
Grace Segers
Bomb Scare Has Capitol Hill Staff Worried About a New Normal
For many still reeling from the January 6 attack, Thursday’s threat renewed concerns about public service in an era of political violence.
August 18, 2021
Grace Segers
Biden Finally Unifies Congress—Against His Afghanistan Withdrawal Debacle
In a rare display of bipartisanship, angry lawmakers of both parties are pushing the president to do more to aid Afghan refugees.

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