AMANDA BECKER is a 2023 Nieman Fellow and Washington correspondent for The 19th. She has covered the U.S. Congress, the White House, and elections for more than a decade. Becker previously worked at Reuters and CQ Roll Call. Her work has appeared in Nouvèl Èdikay, Jounal Washington Post, Etazini Jodi a, ak Glamour magazine, and her political coverage has also been broadcast on National Public Radio. She lives in Washington, D.C.