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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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December 8, 2021
Grace Segers
The 2022 Midterms Are Shaping Up to Be a Blue Wave—of Retirements
With partisan redistricting favoring the GOP and an increasingly “toxic” environment on Capitol Hill, more and more Democrats are opting to leave the House.
December 3, 2021
Grace Segers
Republicans’ Anti-Vaccine Mandate Stunt Fails to Shut Down the Government
So that was dumb.
December 2, 2021
Grace Segers
Chuck Schumer’s Daunting Quest to “Restore the Senate”
The majority leader is spearheading an effort to somehow pass voting rights legislation without destroying the filibuster—and do it by year’s end.
December 2, 2021
Grace Segers
Peter Welch’s “All Hands on Deck” Moment
The question driving Vermont’s lone congressman to run for retiring Senator Patrick Leahy’s seat: “Are we going to defend democracy?”
November 30, 2021
Grace Segers
Guess What Everybody, It’s Debt Ceiling Drama Time Again
The perennial fight to raise the debt limit and avoid an economic calamity is once again on lawmakers’ docket, and this time things could get messy.
November 23, 2021
Grace Segers
Nonprofit Organizations Are About to Get Hit With a Big Bill to Help Pay for the Nation’s Infrastructure
Tucked away in the bipartisan law is a retroactive repeal of a vital tax credit that helped struggling employers retain their workforce during the pandemic.
November 19, 2021
Grace Segers
Biden’s Big Social Infrastructure Bill Finally Gets Passed by the House—Now Comes the Hard Part
The Build Back Better bill is on its way to the Senate, where Joe Manchin awaits.
November 16, 2021
Grace Segers
A Disappointing CBO Score Might Not Doom the Build Back Better Act
Democratic moderates are saying that discouraging news from Washington’s fiscal referees may not be a deal-breaker.
November 16, 2021
Grace Segers
No War, No Problem: Senate Prepares to Shovel Another Pile of Money at the Pentagon
With Build Back Better on ice, the upper body is moving forward with its regular round of defense spending.
November 9, 2021
Grace Segers
Chris Sununu Won’t Run for Senate After Realizing What a Terrible Job It Is
Republicans in Washington had hoped the popular New Hampshire governor could be convinced to leave his cool job and join them in the abject misery of their day-to-day existence.
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.

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