CQ Budget

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

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Aid quandary for Congress
The tangle over supplemental funding and assess the prospects for fiscal 2023 appropriations, a downsized "Build Back Better" measure and more.
25 min
77
Unfinished fiscal agenda
CQ Roll Call's David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak outline a jam-packed agenda after the April recess that includes pandemic aid, restaurant relief, a semiconductor manufacturing measure, fiscal 2023 appropriations, and possibly a resurrected "Build Back Better" package.
23 min
78
Pandemic aid package derailed
CQ Roll Call's David Lerman and Aidan Quigley examine how a bipartisan compromise came unglued and the prospects for salvaging the $10 billion aid package for COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics.
16 min
79
Partisan fiscal clash resumes
CQ Roll Call's David Lerman and Peter Cohn outline the key elements of Joe Biden's budget.
21 min
80
What to expect in the Biden administration budget
CQ Roll Call's David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak preview the major elements of a budget package that Congress will wrestle with in coming months.
17 min
81
Tax breaks percolating
18 min
82
Omnibus spending deal done
CQ Roll Call's David Lerman and Lindsey McPherson discuss omnibus appropriations for the current fiscal year making it across the finish line this week.
23 min
83
Countdown to a spending deal
CQ Roll Call's David Lerman and Peter Cohn assess the state of spending negotiations and discuss a lower-profile bill offering a major expansion of veterans' health care benefits.
19 min
84
What's happening with infrastructure spending?
25 min
85
Two weeks and counting
15 min
86
Budget priorities clash in coming months
18 min
87
Getting something done
17 min
88
Movement on the appropriations process?
17 min
89
New year’s outlook for reconciliation package a...
16 min
90
Democrats look to new year to pass tax and spen...
20 min
91
Senate clears procedural debt limit measure
20 min
92
So much to do, so little time
25 min
93
At last, House passes massive reconciliation pa...
14 min
94
Will the reconciliation bill pass soon?
20 min
95
Reconciliation at risk
18 min
96
The skinny on the stripped down reconciliation ...
20 min
97
What's the meaning of compromise?
18 min
98
What’s next for the reconciliation bill?
17 min
99
Debt limit crisis averted, for now
20 min
100
President Biden's domestic agenda at stake
18 min