Sam Gringlas
Sam Gringlas is an NPR Congressional Reporter.
He returned to NPR in 2025 after four years at NPR member station WABE in Atlanta where he reported on Georgia politics, including the 2022 and 2024 elections, the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter.
Gringlas was previously a producer for NPR's All Things Considered, contributing to coverage of politics, immigration, the pandemic, impeachments and news from across the country and abroad. He also helped cover the 2020 election with NPR's Washington Desk.
Originally from Michigan, Gringlas earned a degree in public policy from the University of Michigan.
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Florida Democrat Sheila Chefilus-McCormick announced on Tuesday she will step down from Congress, becoming the third House member to resign this month.
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A spate of alleged wrongdoing has implications for a narrowly-divided Congress, as well as the public's perception of how the institution responds to accusations of corruption and sexual misconduct. -
Top Republicans in Congress have a plan to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown. But to do so, they'll need to circumvent Democrats and limit defections within their own ranks.
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Last year, Congress approved $75 billion for immigration enforcement. That money has allowed ICE to operate nearly unfettered during a record-long shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. -
The plan would fund DHS, except for immigration enforcement, through September. Republicans would then try to fund the whole agency for three years using a tactic that would not need Democratic votes. -
The Senate approved a bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security early Friday. The bill does not fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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The House voted to approve a stop-gap bill to fund DHS through May 22, Late Friday. This came after House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., called the earlier Senate vote to fund much of DHS "a joke." -
After weeks of start and stop negotiations between Congressional Democrats and the White House, there's an emerging proposal to fund the majority of DHS and tackle ICE enforcement funding separately. -
The Oklahoma Republican comes to the helm in the midst of a shutdown that has left some 100,000 of the department's more than a quarter-million employees working without pay. -
The Senate votes Monday on the nomination of Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., to lead the Department of Homeland Security. The vote comes as lawmakers attempt to negotiate funding for the agency.
