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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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February 3, 2023
Grace Segers
This Parliamentary Maneuver Will Not Save Us From a Debt Ceiling Breach
The discharge petition has been floated as a Hail Mary to avoid default, but the current political conditions do not augur success.
February 1, 2023
Grace Segers
The Urgency of Police Reform Is at the Mercy of a Divided Congress
A Republican House and Democratic Senate could complicate negotiations, but some still hope for a revival of talks two years after the last failed effort.
January 31, 2023
MagazineGrace Segers
The Squad Is Out of Power—and Relishing a New Fight
Inside the progressive flank’s plans to regroup under the Republican House
January 27, 2023
Grace Segers
A Nationwide Fight Over Food Insecurity Is Just Beginning
From a draconian new proposal in Iowa to farm bill deliberations in Washington, the ideological battles over food aid will soon kick off—and no one knows who will end up paying the price.
January 19, 2023
Grace Segers
Joe Manchin’s Latest Budget Plan Is a Blast From the Past
From atop the mountains of Davos, the West Virginia senator has brought down his next big idea: Bring back the supercommittee!
January 18, 2023
Grace Segers
The Debt Ceiling Time Bomb Is Ticking Again. This Could Be the Year It Explodes.
The new year has brought the same old worries about breaching the debt limit. But there’s one worrying change: An unruly group of House Republicans is now in charge.
January 13, 2023
Grace Segers
The Plan to Keep Abortion Rights Atop Voters Minds for the Next Two Years
Six months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the decision is still seen as an electoral game-changer.
January 12, 2023
Daniel Strauss, Grace Segers
The Biden White House Is Going Big on the Middle Class
In an interview with The New Republic, presidential adviser Anita Dunn laid out the contrast with Republicans the White House plans to offer over the next two years.
January 5, 2023
Grace Segers
No Speaker, No Rules, No End in Sight: Inside the House’s Descent Into Purgatory
The uncertainty over Kevin McCarthy’s political future mirrors the existential limbo of the lower chamber.
January 4, 2023
Grace Segers
Democrats Aren’t Willing to Give McCarthy a Win—Yet
Despite murmurings of a possible deal, they are still unified in their opposition to Kevin McCarthy’s bid for speaker.
January 3, 2023
Grace Segers
Kevin McCarthy Has Lost Control of the House GOP
The new GOP House majority predictably got bogged down in infighting over who will hold the speaker’s gavel. How many days of disarray are yet to come?
December 30, 2022
Grace Segers
The Democrats’ Failure of the Year: Letting the Expanded Child Tax Credit Die
As a policy, the 2021 expansion was historically successful, cutting child poverty nearly in half. But it died by politics this year. Can it be revived in 2023?
December 20, 2022
Grace Segers
Congress Leaves Afghan Refugees Out of Year-End Deal
Tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees could be forced to leave the U.S. next year after being cut out Congress’s new spending compromise.
December 19, 2022
Grace Segers, Daniel Strauss
Trump May Be the Figurehead, but the Rot of January 6 Permeates the Republican Party
The final hearing of the January 6 committee showed that the former president was far from alone in fomenting the insurrection.
December 14, 2022
Grace Segers
House Republicans Gear Up to Investigate the Afghanistan Withdrawal
The GOP is planning probes next year of the chaotic 2021 withdrawal. Is there room for a real reckoning—or just partisan point-scoring?
December 9, 2022
Grace Segers, Daniel Strauss
Kyrsten Sinema’s Critics Waste No Time Unloading on the Former Democrat
“Our goal will be to make sure she becomes a political cautionary tale.”
December 6, 2022
Grace Segers
The Expanded Child Tax Credit Is Back—Barely
Some Democrats hope to get a revived version of the popular policy into a government funding package. Here’s what needs to happen in the coming days for this plan to succeed.
December 2, 2022
Grace Segers
The Lame-Duck Fight to Fix America’s Mental Health Crisis Is Going Down to the Wire
Lawmakers hope that a bipartisan measure to shore up much-needed health care provisions can make it into the still-being-negotiated omnibus spending bill.
November 29, 2022
Grace Segers
“Pro-Labor President” Backs Down Ahead of Rail Strike
Worried about the economic consequences of a rail strike, Biden has asked Congress to intervene in a labor dispute.
November 18, 2022
Grace Segers
House Democrats Will Soon Be Under New Management. Here Are Their First Big Challenges.
Nancy Pelosi will give way to a younger core of party bosses who will need to quickly learn how to share power—and be a minority party.

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