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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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October 3, 2025
Grace Segers
Poor Moms and Children Are Caught in the Crossfire of the Shutdown
Unless the government reopens, the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children will run out of funding in one to two weeks.
October 1, 2025
Grace Segers
The Government Shutdown Will Be Devastating for the D.C. Region
The Washington area is already struggling from Trump’s mass layoffs of federal workers. The shutdown will severely compound the pain.
September 23, 2025
Grace Segers
The Latest Casualty of Trump’s War on Data Is a Critical Hunger Report
The USDA abruptly decided to terminate an annual survey that policymakers and organizations use to help Americans struggling with food insecurity.
September 11, 2025
Grace Segers
A Health Care Cost Bomb Is Coming—Unless Congress Acts
If lawmakers don’t extend enhanced tax credits for the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, low- and middle-income households should get ready for some significant sticker shock.
August 8, 2025
Grace Segers
How RFK Jr.’s War on Junk Food Could Backfire on Vulnerable Americans
The health and human services secretary wants to limit access to items he has called “poison.” But this mission is more complex than it seems, with serious consequences for low-income citizens.
July 25, 2025
Grace Segers
Trump’s Budget Law Will Wreck Reproductive Health Care for Millions
The new Republican spending law “defunds” the organization and slashes Medicaid, leaving an untold number of vulnerable people in the lurch.
July 18, 2025
Grace Segers
Inside the Fight to Save SNAP and Medicaid
A wide array of hunger and health care advocates are hoping to mitigate the effects of some provisions in Trump’s budget bill before they are implemented.
July 13, 2025
Grace Segers
How Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Stiffed Tipped Workers
A provision to eliminate income taxes on tips will exclude the lowest-income workers and only serve a sliver of the population.
July 11, 2025
Grace Segers
Trump’s Big Cuts Are Going to Overwhelm Food Banks With Hungry People
Hunger relief organizations are bracing for the sweeping changes to SNAP and Medicaid that could result in millions losing access to assistance.
July 2, 2025
Grace Segers
These Are Obstacles to Zohran Mamdani’s Plans for New York City
How a skeptical Albany and hostile Washington could stymie the Democratic mayoral nominee’s agenda if he’s elected in November
June 27, 2025
Grace Segers
Congress Won’t Act on the Iran Strikes. That Doesn’t Make Them Legal.
Regardless of how lawmakers react, experts say the president’s actions were unlawful.
June 20, 2025
Grace Segers
Single Moms Will Bear the Brunt of the Republicans’ Budget Cuts
Whenever lawmakers start carving up benefit programs, women raising children alone are always the first to feel the pain. Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” follows in that grim tradition.
June 13, 2025
Grace Segers
Ranked-Choice Voting in NYC Faces Its Make-or-Break Moment
Four years after electing Eric Adams, the city’s mayoral primaries on Tuesday will provide another chance for voters to use a still-novel system for choosing a nominee.
June 6, 2025
Grace Segers
The Quest to Bring Young Men Back to the Democrats
Progressives are wringing their hands over the shift that took these voters to the right. But some worry about focusing more on the symptom than the cause.
June 2, 2025
Grace Segers
Small Farmers Are Struggling With Trumpian Chaos—and Bracing for More
Grant freezes and program cuts at USDA, as well as efforts to slash food stamps, could leave community providers in rural America floundering.
May 29, 2025
Grace Segers
Trump’s DOJ Has Put Reproductive Health Clinics Under Threat
With the administration’s refusal to enforce a key law for protecting clinics, abortion providers are bracing for increased disruptions.
May 23, 2025
Grace Segers
Senate Republicans Flirt With Nuking the Filibuster
GOP Senators are chipping away at the 60-vote threshold, marking one more step toward majority rule in the upper chamber.
May 21, 2025
Grace Segers
Here Are the Worst Things in Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill
The GOP is struggling to pass a budget bill that would threaten millions of poor Americans’ livelihoods and health care—to the benefit of the wealthy.
May 16, 2025
Grace Segers
House Republicans Want to Force States to Cut SNAP for Them
GOP lawmakers in Washington want someone else to make the tough choice of slashing nutrition benefits—and to take the blame for who gets left behind.
May 9, 2025
Grace Segers
Forget Fertility Rates—Here’s What a Baby Bonus Would Mean for Poverty
In theory, “pronatalist” policies could help alleviate child poverty—but only if they’re paired with other efforts to strengthen the social safety net.

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