CQ Budget

CQ Roll Call’s budget tracker David Lerman explains how lawmakers in Congress spend the nation’s money.

News
Politics
Government
26
Close to the finish line
27 min
27
Homeland Security punt and reconciliation talk
25 min
28
Appropriators get busy
23 min
29
Last chance for the year
23 min
30
Defense spending uptick
24 min
31
Two months to go
19 min
32
Appropriations back on track?
25 min
33
Politics of a shutdown
21 min
34
Shutdown pressures on the rise
18 min
35
Shutdown pain growing as November nears
23 min
36
'Power of the purse' at stake
23 min
37
Shutdown stalemate
26 min
38
Trapped in a shutdown
26 min
39
Health subsidies standoff
26 min
40
Search for an end game
21 min
41
'Pocket rescission' showdown
21 min
42
Rough-and-tumble September
24 min
43
Politics of appropriations
23 min
44
Big test on rescissions
21 min
45
Political fallout of 'big, beautiful bill'
27 min
46
'Beautiful' bill picked apart
22 min
47
Medicaid and 'SALT' divide GOP
26 min
48
'Big, beautiful' bill on the line
25 min
49
Reconciliation headaches in Senate
27 min
50
'Big, beautiful' bill heads to Senate
29 min