CQ Budget

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

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