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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 1, 2022
Grace Segers
Russia’s Ukraine Aggression Has Congress Poised to Impose Painful Sanctions
Vladimir Putin has driven Republicans and Democrats into one another’s arms.
January 31, 2022
MagazineGrace Segers
The Children Joe Manchin Left Behind
Why did the West Virginia senator kill the biggest expansion of the social safety net since LBJ’s Great Society?
January 28, 2022
Grace Segers, Daniel Strauss
January 6 Committee Recap: The Walls Continue to Close in on Trump and the Insurrectionists
The Justice Department gets serious, the Fulton County case against Trump takes a big step forward, and Seb Gorka steps on a rake.
January 27, 2022
Grace Segers
Republicans Might Throw a Fit Over Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee, but They’re Powerless to Stop It
The GOP can slow down the confirmation process for Stephen Breyer’s replacement, but the Democrats almost certainly have the votes to confirm her.
January 27, 2022
Grace Segers
There’s Another Way to Extend the Child Tax Credit
Senator Mitt Romney’s child allowance proposal may offer a basis for future bipartisan negotiations.
January 26, 2022
Grace Segers
Fixing the Electoral Count Act Is Suddenly the Most Popular Policy Idea in Washington
Experts and politicians agree: The measure is in desperate need of reform, in order to avoid a repeat of 2020 in 2024.
January 25, 2022
Grace Segers
Ro Khanna on a Climate-Only Biden Bill: “There’s No Other Option”
The California representative says Build Back Better needs to get pared down to some urgent essentials.
January 21, 2022
Daniel Strauss, Grace Segers
A Good Week for the January 6 Committee Means a Bad Week for Donald Trump
The first installment in our (hopefully) weekly update on what the committee did this week—and where it ought to head next week.
January 20, 2022
Grace Segers
The Democrats Are Now Debating Which “Chunks” of Build Back Better to Save
Biden is hoping that some sizable portion of his social spending bill might yet make it to his desk.
January 20, 2022
Grace Segers
Hope and Despair on Capitol Hill as Democrats’ Voting Reforms Die by Republican Filibuster (and Manchinema)
The party is left mulling the way forward, given the intransigence of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.
January 14, 2022
Grace Segers
Rosa DeLauro Hasn’t Given Up on the Democratic Agenda
“If we’ve already been lifting people out of poverty, why for heaven’s sakes would we want to throw them back in poverty?”
January 13, 2022
Grace Segers
Voting Rights Are Probably Doomed in the Senate
Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin reiterated their opposition to weakening the filibuster on Thursday.
January 12, 2022
Grace Segers
Did Biden Wait Too Long to Push the Senate on Voting Rights?
Long after it was an obvious need, the president is asking Democrats in the upper house of Congress to change their rules.
January 5, 2022
Grace Segers
Does the Democrats’ New Voting Rights Push Stand a Chance in Joe Manchin’s Senate?
Democrats are pressing forward on measures intended to counter the GOP’s push for voter suppression, pledging to vote on a Senate rules change in the near future.
January 5, 2022
Grace Segers
January 6 Isn’t Over for Me and Many Others Who Lived Through It
Those of us who were working at the Capitol that day don’t yet bear scars because we’re nowhere close to healing.
December 30, 2021
MagazineGrace Segers
House Democrats Are Not in Disarray. Mostly.
The House Democratic Caucus is often accused of being a quarrelsome bunch. But is this just what politics looks like?
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December 29, 2021
Grace Segers
The Grimmest Milestone That America Ignored this Year
In the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of overdose deaths surged past 100,000 for the first time in 2021.
December 22, 2021
Grace Segers
A New Year’s Resolution for Congress: Finish What You Started in 2021
Democratic lawmakers will return from the holidays with a long list of uncompleted chores and unresolved issues.
December 20, 2021
Grace Segers
What Does a Manchin-Friendly Build Back Better Look Like?
Democrats may whittle down Biden’s social spending bill to win the West Virginia senator’s support.
December 19, 2021
Grace Segers
Joe Manchin Just Put the Build Back Better Act on Life Support
The West Virginia senator said on Sunday that he “cannot vote” for the current version of the social spending bill.

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