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Grace Segers

Grace Segers is a staff writer at The New Republic, where she covers policy and politics. Her work particularly focuses on how the decisions made in Washington, D.C. affect Americans across the country. Previously, she worked as a political reporter for CBS News. She also served as a digital reporter for City & State New York. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR.

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November 6, 2021
Grace Segers
The Democrats Finally Get Their Act Together on Infrastructure
The House passed the bipartisan infrastructure bill late on Friday evening, but the Build Back Better Act is still in limbo. Here’s how the long day went down.
November 3, 2021
Grace Segers
Election Setbacks in Virginia and New Jersey Have Capitol Hill Democrats in Despair
Lawmakers are pressing forward with two massive bills that constitute Biden’s agenda, but Tuesday night’s results have laid the party’s midterm weaknesses bare.
November 2, 2021
Grace Segers
With Manchin Wavering, House Democrats Put Their Trust in Biden
The president has guaranteed the votes will be there for the Build Back Better Act. He’ll have to deliver.
October 28, 2021
Grace Segers
Biden and the Democrats Agree to Keep Trying to Agree
What deal did the president and his party’s leaders in Congress strike on Thursday?
October 26, 2021
Grace Segers
Paid Leave Would Help Millions of Americans—and Could Be Cut From the Democrats’ Big Bill
In what’s become a common refrain, one of the most transformative—and politically popular—parts of the Biden agenda is on the chopping block.
October 25, 2021
Grace Segers
Virginia Democrats Turn to Barack Obama to Cure Their High Anxiety
With the Virginia governor’s race tightening, the former president headlined a Terry McAuliffe rally in an effort to Trumpify GOP nominee Glenn Youngkin.
October 21, 2021
Grace Segers
Another Voting Rights Bill Just Died in the Senate. What Now, Biden?
Maine independent Senator Angus King is leading a chorus of voices urging the president to get in the game.
October 20, 2021
Grace Segers
Biden Has Put the Child Tax Credit Extension on the Chopping Block
The idea could be met with pushback from Democrats hoping to extend the credit permanently or through 2025.
October 19, 2021
Grace Segers
The Democrats’ Predicament du Jour: Expand Health Care Coverage to the Elderly or the Poor?
As the party seeks to shave down the price tag of the Biden agenda to appease holdouts, some Americans are going to get left behind.
October 14, 2021
Grace Segers
The Democrats’ Dilemma: Build Back Faster or Build Back Longer?
The party is deadlocked on how to prune down the Biden agenda—in a way that gets them reelected.
October 13, 2021
Grace Segers
The Stubborn Persistence of Food Insecurity for American Families
New data from the Department of Agriculture suggests that families are increasingly losing access to nutritious meals.
October 8, 2021
Grace Segers
Cory Booker Is Still Optimistic About The Senate, Despite—You Know—Everything
The junior senator from New Jersey continues to believe in the power of interpersonal relationships in effecting policy.
October 5, 2021
Grace Segers
Your Guide to the Debt Ceiling Disaster Toward Which America Is Hurtling
We’ll give you the short version (because your time is valuable) and the long version (because you might have nothing better to do).
October 1, 2021
Grace Segers
Manchin’s Plan to Shrink Biden’s $3.5 Trillion Bill May Hurt Families in Need
The West Virginia senator has floated means testing as a way of cutting costs, but his plan could have inadvertent negative effects.
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.

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