Lexie Schapitl
Lexie Schapitl is a production assistant with NPR's Washington Desk, where she produces radio pieces and digital content. She also reports from the field and assists with production of the NPR Politics Podcast.
Schapitl first came to NPR as a Washington Desk intern in 2017. She has previously worked as an associate producer with NPR's newscast unit, a social media manager with Vox and a reporting intern with Newsday. A New Jersey native and University of Maryland graduate, Schapitl is a fan of Maryland basketball, trivia, musicals and the New York Mets.
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Other House Freedom Caucus members have said that while they disagree with House Speaker Mike Johnson, they don't think it's in their best interests to go through another speakership fight. -
Divisions within the House Republican conference could threaten both the future of the package and Mike Johnson's speakership. -
Erie County, Pa., is one of just a handful of places that boomeranged from supporting Obama in 2008 and 2012, to Trump in 2016, to Biden in 2020. It's worth watching in 2024. -
The DCCC is placing billboards in eight swing districts where Republicans supported the Life At Conception Act, NPR has exclusively learned. -
It's the second time in less than a year that House Republicans have pushed to remove their elected leader. -
For years, Republicans pushed "life at conception." IVF is complicating that message as GOP lawmakers struggle to agree on a path forward. -
Alabama passed a bill to protect IVF providers from legal liability. But it doesn't address the larger questions posed by the ruling that said frozen embryos qualify as children under the law.
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In his State of the Union address Thursday, President Biden highlighted key achievements of his first term and made the case that voters should give him a second. Here are six highlights. -
The Senate Republican leader has consistently clashed with Trump, most forcefully after the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. -
The Arizona seat will likely be key in determining control of the Senate.
