Christine Grimaldi

Christine Grimaldi

Senior Political Reporter

Christine Grimaldi is a reporter and writer based in Washington, DC. She has covered Congress for Rewire.News and Bloomberg BNA and completed an MA in nonfiction writing from Johns Hopkins University. Her journalism and essays have also appeared in or on Slate, Washingtonian.com, The Morning News, and elsewhere.

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LGBTQ Advocacy Groups Fight to Defeat Trump’s Latest Trans Military Ban (Updated)

Christine Grimaldi

A Lambda Legal attorney called the memorandum "nothing more than a transparent ruse cobbled together with spittle and duct tape designed solely to mask discrimination."

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Spending Bill Includes Family Planning Funds, but Trump Officials Continue to Undermine Programs (Updated)

Christine Grimaldi

Congress maintained funding for a key family planning program. But President Trump’s abstinence-only Title X chief, Valerie Huber, will decide what to do with the funds.

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Advocates Remember Louise Slaughter’s Commitment to Reproductive Rights and LGBTQ Equality

Christine Grimaldi

As a leader and founding member of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, Slaughter centered reproductive health-care access in her work on Capitol Hill.

LGBTQ Hate Group on Pompeo as Secretary of State: ‘A Very Smart Move by President Trump’

Christine Grimaldi

"We have already seen a State Department under President Trump that has stayed silent and refused to take necessary steps to combat and condemn the growing epidemic of anti-LGBTQ ... and now that department will be helmed by someone with an extensive anti-LGBTQ record."

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It’s ‘Scary,’ But Transgender Patients Are Fighting Trump’s Health-Care Discrimination Agenda

Christine Grimaldi

If the Trump administration gets its way, doctors will be able to claim a religious or a more nebulous moral objection as an excuse to deny care, gender-affirming or otherwise, to transgender patients.

Abstinence-Only Advocate Assumes Control of Family Planning Funds Amid Latest Reproductive Health War

Christine Grimaldi

Congressional Republicans could further empower Trump official Valerie Huber to disregard the Obama-era emphasis on highly effective forms of contraception and turn the nation's affordable birth control program into a bastion of abstinence and natural family planning.