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